Le 10/03/2017 18:19, Paul Boddie a écrit : > On Friday 10. March 2017 17.08.47 Julie Marchant wrote: >> Trisquel forum thread here: >> >> https://trisquel.info/en/forum/amd-apparently-taking-requests-feedback-comm >> unity >> >> And this is the Reddit thread where it happened: >> >> https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5x4hxu/we_are_amd_creators_of_athlon_ >> radeon_and_other/def5h1b/ >> >> It would be a good idea to encourage AMD to do this. Who knows? It could >> lead us to an x86 EOMA computer card of some sort in the future. ;) Not >> to mention, it would just be better for us overall to have AMD on our side. > > Interesting comment: > > "Unfortunately AMD is licensing Trustonic's PSP firmware. They do not have > the > option to open source it." > > https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5x4hxu/we_are_amd_creators_of_athlon_radeon_and_other/defn8l1/ > > Of course, this is just one aspect of AMD's technologies, but similar > obstacles probably appear along each of the paths towards freedom for all the > different things their products provide. Even with all their GPU expertise, > they are unlikely to make the technologies transparent because every patent > troll and potential competitor might try and sue them over some detail or > other. That, unfortunately, is the pact of silence all the GPU vendors adhere > to, whether or not the explanation really has much merit. > > It's interesting that this happens now. I was vaguely aware that AMD had just > launched their Ryzen line of products, and was also vaguely aware that they'd > been trying to get their Zen microarchitecture out. However, AMD have a > history of underwhelming the market in many ways, so it makes one wonder what > an appeal to the "community" is all about. One can be cynical and say that > companies only appeal to anyone if the market is too tough, and once they're > doing fine again, they forget about all their friends in the "community". > > Still, their stock price has gone up sixfold over the last few months, so > maybe I'm not the one to second-guess them. That's of because of hype building like always. You should see all the inane comments that I see everywhere on forums and image boards, it's like if they pay people to go on the said websites... If a message if repeated enough times one the web you can see that it will influence something outside of it. > > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] > http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook > Send large attachments to [email protected] >
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