AMD maybe considuring releasing open source drivers themselves. [LWN.net]

AMD maybe considuring releasing open source drivers themselves.

Posted Aug 10, 2006 14:33 UTC (Thu) by cventers (subscriber, #31465)
In reply to: AMD maybe considuring releasing open source drivers themselves. by shane
Parent article: Free Intel i965 graphics drivers released

Keep in mind that ATI and NVIDIA already _have_ Linux drivers. They're
just not open source. That technically means that they own at least a
substantial portion of the copyright, and could decide to open up at
least those parts any day they wanted to.

Hell, if nothing else, they could at least release their _hardware
programming specifications_ and let the damn community make a good
driver.

BTW, NVIDIA, it's very offensive when your public relations people tell
your customers they're too stupid to make good graphics drivers. I have
news for you - you're telling this to the folks that made the fastest and
most portable operating system on Earth -- the one OS that can use _one_
driver regardless of any of the many, diverse CPU architectures are out
there. You guys in the proprietary driver industry can't even seem to
move to 64 bit without freaking out.

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