Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Sep 2007 17:24 UTC, submitted by Rahul
LWN.net writes: "A quick report from the kernel summit: AMD's representative at the summit has announced that the company has made a decision to enable the development of open source drivers for all of its (ATI) graphics processors from the R500 going forward. There will be specifications available and a skeleton driver as well; a free 2D driver is anticipated by the end of the year. The rest will have to be written; freeing of the existing binary-only driver is not in the cards, and 'that is better for everybody'. Things are looking good on this front. More in the kernel summit report to come."
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2005-11-27
And there are many version of the kernel.
So between 23 version of 2.6 kernel and 10 major distribution and say support for the two last version of distribution, I think there are plenty of money to save.
If you add fringe OS's (hobby OS's like haiku,specialized OS's) that now will have easy access to the hardware specifications they expand there market.
I think this is a graceful exit from Linux by AMD, and implicit acknowledgement of the deficient of their existing linux driver, both in stability and features(no AIGLX for example).