From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 16 10:22:17 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 8B11E16A400 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:22:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from volker@vwsoft.com) Received: from frontmail.ipactive.de (frontmail.maindns.de [85.214.95.103]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5011E13C44B for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:22:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from volker@vwsoft.com) Received: from mail.vtec.ipme.de (Q7dfa.q.ppp-pool.de [89.53.125.250]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by frontmail.ipactive.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 699C9128843 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:22:11 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.16.3] (cesar.sz.vwsoft.com [192.168.16.3]) by mail.vtec.ipme.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1482E2E54A for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:22:02 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <45FA6FC8.8090606@vwsoft.com> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:22:00 +0100 From: Volker User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070306) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-VWSoft-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: volker@vwsoft.com X-ipactive-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ipactive-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ipactive-MailScanner-From: volker@vwsoft.com Subject: open source graphics card 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: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:22:17 -0000 Hi! I've followed the thread "don't buy ati products" not very closely but one thing comes to mind: Years ago we've had a lot of card / chip manufacturers on the market. When thinking about this currently really just two chip manufacturers are coming into my mind. This is bad. It's probably a crazy idea but what about an open source graphics card? There are similar projects already like OsCar so the idea of open source hardware development is not really new but probably exciting. Aren't there any hw devs reading and motivated? Imagine a graphics chip with a BSD style license... ;) Just dreaming? Volker