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On the horizon: an open graphics card (NewsForge)On the horizon: an open graphics card (NewsForge)Posted Jul 21, 2006 17:48 UTC (Fri) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216)In reply to: On the horizon: an open graphics card (NewsForge) by irios Parent article: On the horizon: an open graphics card (NewsForge)
The fact that Intel is being friendly at the moment is nice, but it's nothing to count on for the future. Corporate benevolence can change at a moment's notice, on one executive's whim or bad digestion, it seems. So having a truly free (from the start, and by design) video card is a very good and noble thing to strive for.
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that there are people at Intel that are generous and open-minded in regard to having free drivers. But the pressure from certain quarters might begin to be applied to shut that down, or bring it under Digital Restrictions Management, which would be the end of that right quickly.
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On the horizon: an open graphics card (NewsForge) Posted Jul 21, 2006 20:07 UTC (Fri) by rknop (guest, #66) [Link] Once upon a time ATI was completely free-software friendly, but that changed. That's anecdotal evidence that your warning is very apt.
On the horizon: an open graphics card (NewsForge) Posted Jul 21, 2006 20:16 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] Well ya Intel isn't friends of open source any more then IBM is.
It's just a business opertunity and they are one of the companies that get if you want to have good Linux support you need to cooperate with open source developers. (duh) It's purely practical. (and for that I bought their hardware for my latest desktop.. and I'll probably buy their hardware for any new laptop that I would want.)
Intel on other fronts aren't so hot. They are one of the major proponates of DRM, for instance.
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