Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 20th Nov 2008 13:14 UTC, submitted by Michael Larabel
3D News, GL, DirectX Earlier this year VIA announced they wanted to join the open-source bandwagon by establishing an open-source driver development initiative, releasing documentation and source-code, and to better engage with the Linux community at large. They have made a few small steps over the past few months, but today they have made their largest open-source contribution yet by releasing four programming documentation guides that cover the video, 2D, and 3D programming for their Chrome 9 graphics processor. In addition, they are now partnering with the community-spawned OpenChrome developers.
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BSDfan
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2007-03-14

Then do some research before you dare spread FUD.. ;)

Intel, AMD and now VIA have all released either docs or drivers... Nvidia is the only one holding out.

AMD:
http://www.x.org/wiki/radeon
http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonhd
http://www.radeonhd.org/
http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/
http://developer.amd.com/documentation/guides/Pages/default.aspx#op...

Intel stuff:
http://intellinuxgraphics.org/

Via stuff:
http://linux.via.com.tw/support/downloadFiles.action
http://www.x.org/docs/via/
http://www.openchrome.org/

You fail at life Adurbe.. just like Adobe fails at business.

Edited 2008-11-21 01:00 UTC

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