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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Edit: Meant to reply to Xaero_Vincent:
"You know what this news means right?
FreeBSD drivers
Solaris drivers
Timely bug fixes
AIGLX support
But people lets be honest. All this is gonna take time. AMD has to resolve the IP issues tangled in their drivers.
"
This is a great move for AMD.
You still need to buy their hardware anyway, and by opening the drivers, OSS devs will create drivers for systems and deal with issues that AMD doesn't feel it's worth their time to deal with, and AMD can sell hardware to users of those systems.
OSS always makes sense for hardware vendors.
Edited 2007-05-14 01:34