____/ 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).
--
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