[Leaplist] AMD putting out good ATI drivers

[Damien McKenna]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: patrick
> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 3:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leaplist] AMD putting out good ATI drivers
> 
> Could it be that AMD doesn't want to screw the pooch like nVidia did
> when they wrote the video driver that made Linux kernels vulnerable to
> exploits?

I thought it was more an attempt to appease the market that wants
manufacturer-backed open source drivers?  Many companies won't touch
anything unless there's corporate backing, even something as innocuous
as drivers.


Damien McKenna