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Good for them!

Good for them!

Posted Sep 5, 2007 16:05 UTC (Wed) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648)
In reply to: AMD to open up graphics specs by ewan
Parent article: AMD to open up graphics specs

Hey, we Open-source/Free software advocates have got to take any good news we can get relating to a vendor opening up specifications to a previously-proprietary hardware device (generally speaking). Besides, who doesn't suppose the Community can/will code a graphics driver that might even be better than ATI's in-house version? (Not meant to impugn the expertise of ATI's engineering team.)

But, more importantly, this sets a precedent for other hardware manufacturers to follow, in general. Kudos to ATI.


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