Re: Honesty in Debian (was Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 11:43:27PM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 03:54:23PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > No, like chosing ati over nvidia for graphic cards, or silicon image over
> > others for SATA cards.
>
> Wait a minute, did I miss a memo? ATI isn't the devil anymore?
There is 3D support for their newer cards in Xorg 6.9, and they have always
been more friendly to free software than nvidia was. They where on the edge i
believe and don't provide specs for newer cards, but they are not militantly
against free software like nvidia is. Hey nvidia is even not giving specs to
people wanting to write closed-source drivers, and won't even talk with you if
you have not a 100K chip per month volume.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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