Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:55:20 +0100 From: Philipp Ost <pj@smo.de> 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: <45F97A78.5010009@smo.de> In-Reply-To: <20070314210110.35058f3c@daydream.goid.lan> References: <ef10de9a0703131258w3e3d9d64od823866d5fc9e461@mail.gmail.com> <20070314210110.35058f3c@daydream.goid.lan>
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Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote: > 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? Fully agreed. If somebody insists on not buying AMD/ATi products: Buy only such products known to work with free drivers available ;) Just my 0.02€ Philipp -- www.familie-ost.info/~pj
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