Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 1st Jun 2007 15:05 UTC, submitted by Michael
"Last year when AMD announced their acquisition of ATI it led many to wonder how this would impact the quality of their Linux support and driver. Some had even speculated that AMD would be opening the code to at least a subset of their graphics drivers, and while this issue has come up again more recently, we will cover this particular topic in a different article. In this article we will be exposing what truly consists of the ATI/AMD driver development cycle and ultimately what they are really doing to improve their image in the Linux community."
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No, you haven't.
AMD is trying to tell a hurting man that that being poked by a branding iron is more painful than being poked by a cattle prod.
This may be an internal strategy paper and it does show that AMD is putting down a tight release schedule for drivers under Linux and that many common criticisms towards AMD seem to be unfounded. Beyond that the article has nothing to say but that AMD's effort is so much better than NVidia's. For free and open source advocates there is little in there. However, news of open sourcing the code are reserved for another article. Or so TFA says...
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I've taken a quick look through the article. They describe the current issues and the driver development process very well.
On the other hand I could not find much about the "open source" situation. They only tell that R200 series are now maintained only by X.Org open source drivers.
Have I missed something?
Edited 2007-06-01 15:22