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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2005-08-28
...except, Intel's international business and political practices make it even worse than Microsoft in my eyes.
Yes, they are in fact fairly friendly to _some_ parts of open source, the onboard graphics chipsets for instance is one I've given them credit for before. Mind you, even in that latter, I'm not sure why folk are suddenly saying how great Intel's graphics chips on Linux are, historically, to me, they've been tolerable, but hardly great... Being stuck in 16bit colour for instance if you want some modicum of DRI support, and even that not being all that good in terms of performance. They may have gotten better since, but still, they haven't been that good.