From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 13 20:47:41 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C487116A402 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:47:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.236]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AE0913C484 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:47:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so2065323wxc for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:47:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.44.4 with SMTP id r4mr2323060wxr.1173818860881; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:47:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.4? ( [67.189.184.224]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id h10sm7420829wxd.2007.03.13.13.47.40; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:47:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:47:48 -0400 To: User Questions Organization: Seibercom.net In-Reply-To: References: X-Face: "\j?x](l|]4p?-1Bf@!wN<&p=$.}^k-HgL}cJKbQZ3r#Ar]\%U(#6}'?<3s7%(%(gxJxxcR nSNPNr*/^~StawWU9KDJ-CT0k$f#@t2^K&BS_f|?ZV/.7Q Message-Id: <20070313164139.07A4.GERARD-SEIBERT@seibercom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.30.03 [en] From: Gerard Subject: Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: User Questions List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:47:41 -0000 On Tuesday March 13, 2007 at 03:58:34 (PM) Nikolas Britton wrote: > We need to start hounding on AMD to publish the developer > documentation for all radeon chipsets. I for one will not buy any AMD > or ATI components until they decide to fix the problem. Do you in your wildest dreams actually believe that will make an iota of difference? The vast majority of those components are purchased by PC manufacturers; not the everyday PC user. If you really want to try an effect a change in policy, and personally I believe Don Quixote had a better chance at success, you should try enlisting the support of PC manufacturers. -- Gerard Clark's Law: Sufficiently advanced cluelessness is indistinguishable from malice.