Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:43:43 -0700 From: "Jack Vogel" <jfvogel@gmail.com> To: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>, "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.) Message-ID: <2a41acea0703131343y71c849a0u390256d39409072@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070313203343.GA66076@icarus.home.lan> References: <ef10de9a0703131258w3e3d9d64od823866d5fc9e461@mail.gmail.com> <20070313203343.GA66076@icarus.home.lan>
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On 3/13/07, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 02:58:34PM -0500, 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. > > > > Here's the email address of AMD's president: dirk.meyer@amd.com > > > > Give him your two cents. > > Boycotting their hardware due to lack-of public developer docs is > extreme but justified. Everyone has the right to do that if they > desire. > > But in my opinion, mailing the president of AMD is really not the way to > go about this. That methodology invites angry people sending him > flames, which does nothing but destroy the image of a mature, reliable > open-source community. > > Besides, chances are it's not Meyer who's making these decisions (re: > proprietary hardware / NDA-only documentation), but a few select > individuals at ATI who are fuelled off of paranoia (the most common > defence being fear nVidia/other competitors will "steal their > technology"). Really sounds like the decision of a legal dept. and not > a CEO. Right, flaming never helps, but then I don't think the intention was to have anyone flame, 'raising awareness' is a better goal :) AMD has people that work on Linux (I interviewed with them some years back), maybe using that route to get to the decision makers? Cheers, Jackhome | help
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