Intel Lied. And Now it's Harming Linux Users.

Intel, On their Intel Arc GPU Announcement live stream, [briefly mentioned](https://youtu.be/jD4--NBMMWc?t=477) how Xe Super Sampling™ is going to be a "Open Platform".

We also got official confirmation in Intel's own announcement article [*which is sadly lost to time*](https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000090335/graphics.html) mentioning:
- "Intel® Xe Super Sampling (XeSS) **is open source**. It is implemented using open standards to ensure wide availability on many games and across a broad set of shipping hardware, from both Intel® and other GPU vendors" - [Alternate source](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-XeSS-Open-Source)

Unfortunately, it seems like this was all fabricated inside a phony [GitHub repository](https://github.com/intel/xess) and Intel has yet to comment on how **uploading binary blobs to a GitHub repository** is not considered "Open Source Software".

Not only that, Anton Kaplanyan, Intel's VP of Graphics Research, [In a now deleted tweet](https://private-user-images.githubusercontent.com/3100771/310577850-298b9c98-73b1-4b4c-a751-da974a749278.png?jwt=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJnaXRodWIuY29tIiwiYXVkIjoicmF3LmdpdGh1YnVzZXJjb250ZW50LmNvbSIsImtleSI6ImtleTUiLCJleHAiOjE3MTIxNzk4MjQsIm5iZiI6MTcxMjE3OTUyNCwicGF0aCI6Ii8zMTAwNzcxLzMxMDU3Nzg1MC0yOThiOWM5OC03M2IxLTRiNGMtYTc1MS1kYTk3NGE3NDkyNzgucG5nP1gtQW16LUFsZ29yaXRobT1BV1M0LUhNQUMtU0hBMjU2JlgtQW16LUNyZWRlbnRpYWw9QUtJQVZDT0RZTFNBNTNQUUs0WkElMkYyMDI0MDQwMyUyRnVzLWVhc3QtMSUyRnMzJTJGYXdzNF9yZXF1ZXN0JlgtQW16LURhdGU9MjAyNDA0MDNUMjEyNTI0WiZYLUFtei1FeHBpcmVzPTMwMCZYLUFtei1TaWduYXR1cmU9MmY4MGY2ZjZiZjIzYjJiZjI3ODk5M2NkMzdlNTAwMjgwMWEwZTRmMTY3NDQyMzg2YzM2MDYzMDM1NDMyNTg3YiZYLUFtei1TaWduZWRIZWFkZXJzPWhvc3QmYWN0b3JfaWQ9MCZrZXlfaWQ9MCZyZXBvX2lkPTAifQ.SUHTTQxDsKncx1B4i8yTuLUzRBt4ZT8tW4_PnUL8KeA) mentioned how XeSS will be "cross platform". [Other Sources](https://twitter.com/Kaplanyan/status/1453506565017772035). We've yet to see any "cross platform" implementations other than Windows.

Unfortunately, as a result of this, pull requests like [this](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/27659) are being made to at least get XeSS working on an un-accelerated state on Linux.