From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 15 07:02:09 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EE2E16A404 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:02:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from clay@milos.co.za) Received: from bart.milos.co.za (bart.milos.co.za [196.38.18.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3DE913C455 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:02:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from clay@milos.co.za) Received: (qmail 67361 invoked by uid 89); 15 Mar 2007 07:00:18 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.2.0 ppid: 67356, pid: 67358, t: 0.6233s scanners: attach: 1.2.0 clamav: 0.88.7/m:42/d:2560 Received: from unknown (HELO claylaptop) (clay@milos.za.net@196.207.32.232) by bart.milos.co.za with ESMTPA; 15 Mar 2007 07:00:17 -0000 Message-ID: <004501c766cf$d43d2970$8939340a@claylaptop> From: "Clayton Milos" To: "Charles Shannon Hendrix" References: <20070314210110.35058f3c@daydream.goid.lan> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:01:59 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:02:09 -0000 > 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: > > 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