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

[Philipp Ost]

Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> 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?

Fully agreed.

If somebody insists on not buying AMD/ATi products: Buy only such 
products known to work with free drivers available ;)


Just my 0.02€

Philipp
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