Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 12th Aug 2006 19:01 UTC, submitted by fish reloaded
Statement by ATI: "For other markets, such as workstation and consumer, performance and feature differentiation are key metrics. Proprietary, patented optimizations are part of the value we provide to our customers and we have no plans to release these drivers to open source. In addition, multimedia elements such as content protection must not, by their very nature, be allowed to go open source."
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2005-07-06
It is funny that it is always ATi who gets all the criticism. Partially this is justified, but regarding open source friendlyness NVidia is the real enemy. None of their cards has a decent open source driver.
ATi did until a while ago provide all necessary documentation to develop open source drivers. It is very wrong that they no longer provide this, but NVidia is definately a front that needs more attention.
Edited 2006-08-12 20:25