Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:01:10 -0400 From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon@widomaker.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.) Message-ID: <20070314210110.35058f3c@daydream.goid.lan> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0703131258w3e3d9d64od823866d5fc9e461@mail.gmail.com> References: <ef10de9a0703131258w3e3d9d64od823866d5fc9e461@mail.gmail.com>
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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: <deleted>
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.
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