On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 09:18:29AM -0400, Brendan said > On Monday 04 October 2004 01:26, Jules Dubois wrote: > > I may never get totally open source, but one of the biggest reasons is > > that some Linux (and presumably BSD) users buy their hardware anyway. The > > attitudes of ATI and Nvidia (and others) says clearly that they don't care > > about their customers. I'm not buying their excuses or their products. > > Oh snore. You obviously have never been in the hardware business, and have > zero clue what it takes to make a business fly. Please, saying things like > "they obviously don't care about their customers" just highlights your > ignorance.
So why not release documentation for the freaking card? Even if it was under a NDA to some exclusive group of developers, we could at least have Free drivers. > They care enough to make a driver. Yeah, what about the other companies? I don't know if ATI wrote the driver or just provided docs, but my Radeon 9200 works perfectly with Free drivers. -rob -- Words of the day: airframe ANC industrial intelligence Watergate Montenegro
