[Leaplist] AMD putting out good ATI drivers

[Ray]

Damien McKenna wrote:
>> -----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
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http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=302

looks like AMD is going one step further, they are going to open up the 
code for all new ATI cards...  this is great news for Linux users.  i 
may have to buy ATI for my next video card when the time comes if things 
go down this path and are working great.

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