Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:25:23 -0400 From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> To: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.) Message-ID: <5E16DADA-6FB9-4C94-BA12-C66726254FCF@ece.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070313203343.GA66076@icarus.home.lan> References: <ef10de9a0703131258w3e3d9d64od823866d5fc9e461@mail.gmail.com> <20070313203343.GA66076@icarus.home.lan>
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On Mar 13, 2007, at 16:33 , Jeremy Chadwick 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. >> 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. Hounding on AMD won't help right now regardless; they're still finding out what kind of mess they've acquired, making changes to it is a long way off. :) -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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