On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 20:58, Rog�rio Brito wrote: > On Oct 25 2001, Michel D�nzer wrote: > > On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 00:19, Michel Lanners wrote: > > > - make the iDCT and motion compensation of the ATI chip available under > > > Linux. Single most usefull improvement. > > > > Unfortunately, it's also the least likely to happen. > > What is the reason for that?
I can only speculate, but I suspect the US jurisdiction. > So, back to the discussion, is it the case that ATI is not > willing to cooperate? I thought that they, together with > Matrox, were some of the more open-source-friendly companies > making video cards. Absolutely. They provide documentation and hardware to developers, they submit code to XFree86. Maybe they do even more but that's what I know about. > Do they have any legal problems releasing the documentation? I can't think of any other reason why they wouldn't do it. > Would a petition signed by users of the "minority" OSes (say, > users of the many distributions of Linux and the BSDs) be a > sensible notice for ATI that there are people willing to use > their hardware with alternative OSes? I think they know, see the press release Branden posted. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
