Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)

[Yann Golanski]

Quoth Nikolas Britton on Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 14:58:34 -0500
> 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.

It is not a problem but a marketing decision we know nothing about.  I
have seen Linux drivers, Windows drivers and Mac drivers from their
site.  I am sure that if we asked in a reasonable and polite fashion we
could convince them to release the drivers for *BSD -- or make the Linux
ones in such a way that they work on *BSD.  

Hounding them is not going to help.  It will harm our cause.

> Give him your two cents.

Please, do not do that.  It will hinder.

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