From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 15 01:01:13 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB29116A402 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:01:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shannon@widomaker.com) Received: from wilma.widomaker.com (wilma.widomaker.com [204.17.220.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A27A413C45D for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:01:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shannon@widomaker.com) Received: from [69.72.100.1] (helo=escape.goid.lan) by wilma.widomaker.com with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1HReL9-0001Wj-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:01:12 -0400 Received: from daydream.goid.lan (IDENT:1000@daydream.goid.lan [192.168.1.10]) by escape.goid.lan (8.13.5.20060614/8.11.6) with ESMTP id l2F11Auw028956 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:01:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:01:10 -0400 From: Charles Shannon Hendrix To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070314210110.35058f3c@daydream.goid.lan> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Big Endian X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.8.0 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-slackware-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:01:13 -0000 On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:58:34 -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. Brilliant. Let's destroy years of good will with AMD, a company that has been very good about supporting open source and providing good documentation for their products. Let's hound them about something that is probably not under their control, since they don't own all of the "IP" in the ATI products, just as nVidia doesn't own everything it sells. This is the kind of thing that turns people and companies away from open source. > Here's the email address of AMD's president: Quite acting like a child. Would you like it if someone posted your email address publicly like this to be harvested for spam and useless zealotry? -- shannon | There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not | philosophers.