NVIDIA has announced
that the PhysX source code is now freely available on Github to any
developer interested in this technology.
Offering the PhysX source code freely is a very big
shift in NVIDIA's policy, but it shows that the company is now very much
aware that this is one of ways to improve the Linux integration of its
software solutions. NVIDIA already made the SDK free for the Windows
platform, but now the hardware company is extending that policy to
Windows, Linux, OSx and Android.
NVIDIA has been working on PhysX for almost a decade
and it's been closely guarded secret, but the world is changing and so
it the company. They still have a long way to do, especially if we keep
in mind that the drivers are not open source, or at least not yet. In
any case, the simple fact that an important piece of software like PhysX
can be downloaded freely is a huge step forward.
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