Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 05 July 2007 15:17 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> ____/ Jerry McBride on Thursday 05 July 2007 01:48 : \____
>>>
>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The State of ATI Linux 2007
>>>>>
>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>> | With the DirectX 10.0 Vista driver now out the door, the software
>>>>> | engineers have been working on the new Linux driver (and one for
>>>>> | Microsoft Windows XP as well). AMD will not officially confirm
>>>>> | this, of course. While the features for this yet to be released
>>>>> | driver cannot be officially corroborated, the driver should contain
>>>>> | OpenGL improvements including support for Compiz/Beryl/Compiz Fusion,
>>>>> | video playback improvements, and last but not least the overdue
>>>>> | Radeon HD 2000 series support.
>>>>> `----
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=768&num=1
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The only good news would have been, "includes source code"... Until I
>>>> canbuild it myself, I'll never need it.
>>>
>>> See the links at the bottom of the OP. They talked open source. Maybe
>>> they'll give it away one day, but then they'll have to kill us. :-)
>>>
>>
>> Once the free nVidia driver works, I think the dams will burst here.
>
> Is it all perfectly legal? I just wonder because maybe they misuse the b0rken
> USPTO and extend their patents from hardware to software (drivers), where some
> sophisticated stuff is being diverted to reduce hardware complexity and enable
> patching (recall what a loophole they left in Linux last year).
>
Patents on software do not apply outside the US, Mexico, Canada and
Australia.
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