Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 13th May 2007 14:21 UTC, submitted by John Mills
AMD will soon deliver open graphics drivers, said Henri Richard just a few minutes ago, and the audience at the opening keynote of the Red Hat Summit broke into applause and cheers. Richard, AMD's executive vice president of sales and marketing, promised: "I'm here to commit to you that it's going to get done." He also promised that AMD is "going to be very proactive in changing way we interface with the Linux community".
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2005-07-08
Especially since, if you really read what the AMD guy said versus what the blogger wrote, it isn't entirely clear that AMD actually promised open source anything. He promised that AMD would work more closely with the Linux community, and he promised to make their drivers work better with Vista as well.
Basically, he admitted that their drivers are awful no matter which modern OS you're running, and that they're going to try their best not to suck so much in the future. Still no DirectX 10 part (not that I personally care), no viable competition to nVidia on the high end, and no reasonable comparison to Intel in their commitment to free software. I'm been an AMD fan in the not-so-distant past, but I've lost most of my confidence in their ability to execute.
Edited 2007-05-14 02:32