Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:01:59 +0200 From: "Clayton Milos" <clay@milos.co.za> To: "Charles Shannon Hendrix" <shannon@widomaker.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.) Message-ID: <004501c766cf$d43d2970$8939340a@claylaptop> References: <ef10de9a0703131258w3e3d9d64od823866d5fc9e461@mail.gmail.com> <20070314210110.35058f3c@daydream.goid.lan>
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> On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:58:34 -0500 > "Nikolas Britton" wrote: > >> We need to start hounding on AMD to publish the developer >> documentation for all radeon chipsets. I for one will not buy any AMD >> or ATI components until they decide to fix the problem. > > Brilliant. Let's destroy years of good will with AMD, a company that has > been very good about supporting open source and providing good > documentation > for their products. > > Let's hound them about something that is probably not under their control, > since they don't own all of the "IP" in the ATI products, just as nVidia > doesn't own everything it sells. > > This is the kind of thing that turns people and companies away from open > source. > >> Here's the email address of AMD's president: <deleted> > > Quite acting like a child. Would you like it if someone posted your email > address publicly like this to be harvested for spam and useless zealotry? > > > > -- > shannon | There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not > | philosophers. Well said Charles. Will the children please refrain from posting to the list. -Clay
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