From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 15 16:55:39 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 BAF2F16A4EF for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:55:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pj@smo.de) Received: from ilk.de (mx-out09.ilk.de [194.121.104.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F55313C468 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:55:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pj@smo.de) Received: from bologna.intern.smo.de (pool12.ka.ilk.net [212.86.194.12]) by ilk.de (8.13.4/8.13.4/ilk-relay) with ESMTP id l2FGtaqP031415; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:55:36 +0100 Received: from [192.168.153.208] (herdubreid.intern.smo.de [192.168.153.208]) by bologna.intern.smo.de (8.13.4+Sun/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l2FGrrUp015208; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:53:53 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <45F97A78.5010009@smo.de> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:55:20 +0100 From: Philipp Ost User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20070120 X-Accept-Language: de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Charles Shannon Hendrix References: <20070314210110.35058f3c@daydream.goid.lan> In-Reply-To: <20070314210110.35058f3c@daydream.goid.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 16:55:39 -0000 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: > > > 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