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Nvidia Open Sources PhysX SDK

posted by martyb on Tuesday December 04 2018, @02:09AM   Printer-friendly
from the commoditize-your-complement dept.
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NPC-131072 writes:

Nvidia is proud to announce PhysX SDK 4.0, available on December 20, 2018. The engine has been upgraded to provide industrial grade simulation quality at game simulation performance. In addition, PhysX SDK has gone open source, starting today with version 3.4! It is available under the simple 3-Clause BSD license. With access to the source code, developers can debug, customize and extend the PhysX SDK as they see fit.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 04 2018, @03:44AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 04 2018, @03:44AM (#769427)

    Free work. That's what they want.

    FOSS has been destroyed over the last 5 years; there is no such thing anymore. You're just being used.

  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Tuesday December 04 2018, @04:31AM (4 children)

    by Arik (4543) on Tuesday December 04 2018, @04:31AM (#769437) Journal
    Shame, Nvidia, shame.
    --
    If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by loonycyborg on Tuesday December 04 2018, @09:31AM (1 child)

      by loonycyborg (6905) on Tuesday December 04 2018, @09:31AM (#769478)

      Generally failed technologies are released as opensource. Seems PhysX ended up being too overkill for games, in danger of being replaced by Bullet which is not specific to a particular vendor's hardware. So they opensource it so at least scientists could make some use of it.

      • (Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 04 2018, @03:56PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 04 2018, @03:56PM (#769613)

        "Generally failed technologies are released as opensource."

        found the dumb ass windows user talking out of his ass.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 04 2018, @12:56PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 04 2018, @12:56PM (#769521)

      I like Linus' way of saying that better:

      https://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/blogs/wiredenterprise/wp-content/uploads//2012/06/Screen-shot-2012-06-18-at-10.32.45-AM.png [wired.com]

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 04 2018, @04:02PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 04 2018, @04:02PM (#769616)

      it's pretty funny and it shows just how far out of touch they really are. their sdk was closed source? lmao!

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