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Does Hacking Closed Hardware Hinder Open Hardware?
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| If there's an average customer, I'm not him. I use open and unencumbered
| formats as often as possible. I don't use iTunes. (It won't run natively on
| any OS I use.) I have a few MP3 files, but most of my music I've ripped
| myself from CDs to Ogg Vorbis files.
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| When I decided to purchase a portable music player, I had three options:
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| * Transcode my files
| * Find and purchase a player which can play Ogg Vorbis files
| * Purchase and modify a player to play Ogg Vorbis files
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http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2008/10/does-hacking-closed-hardware-h.html
Recent:
ATI/AMD's Open-Source Plans
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| Starting off the X.Org talks at FOSDEM 2008 was AMD's John Bridgman, who has
| been leading the AMD GPG open-source efforts. John had talked briefly about
| the history of their open-source efforts for the R500+ series and the
| evolution of AMD GPU hardware. Among the interesting comments made were that
| TexturedVideo/X-Video support for the R500/600 may be coming quite soon, DRM
| and Mesa work forthcoming, open-source multi-GPU multi-GPU support is on the
| road-map, and they will be re-releasing R200 programming documents. The RV620
| and RV635 documentation is expected in the near future.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=fosdem_08_bridgman&num=1
Could AMD move open desktop Linux market?
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| AMD’s recent move to fully support open source graphics could be the best
| news desktop Linux has had in a long time.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1427
AMD Launches Open GPU Website
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| AMD has today launched their new open GPU documentation website for
| register-level documents covering their ATI Radeon products. In addition,
| they are now providing an email address for any open-source developers who
| may have questions concerning these documents.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjMyOQ
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