It means when people are trying to do things like experiment with how to make for example frame timing more useful, such that specs like Vulkan can advance[1], we can't experiment with & try to advance & figure out what might work, because closed proprietary software doesn't allow mankind to explore & progress.
We basically have to keep going back to Nvidia & relying on them to be authorities on their own system & to be acting in everyone's interest when we try to develop extensions like VK_EXT_present_timing. This greatly injures the development of good standards, obstructing there from being a collaborative healthy environment where people can work together to make standards that work well.
Another example is EGLStreams which is not that bad but very different approach to handling video buffers from what everyone else does which has been obstructing the use of the newer Wayland display server on nvidia hardware for 6 years now[2]. Nvidia wants their thing, & closed drivers mean no one can play around & attempt to make their hardware work if they wanted to. Ridiculously harsh limitations, no choice, no experimenting.
We basically have to keep going back to Nvidia & relying on them to be authorities on their own system & to be acting in everyone's interest when we try to develop extensions like VK_EXT_present_timing. This greatly injures the development of good standards, obstructing there from being a collaborative healthy environment where people can work together to make standards that work well.
Another example is EGLStreams which is not that bad but very different approach to handling video buffers from what everyone else does which has been obstructing the use of the newer Wayland display server on nvidia hardware for 6 years now[2]. Nvidia wants their thing, & closed drivers mean no one can play around & attempt to make their hardware work if they wanted to. Ridiculously harsh limitations, no choice, no experimenting.
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=VK_EXT_p...
[2] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTgxMDE
This creates a science-free vacuum where research & experimentation & progress wither, where peership dies.