On Tuesday 14 February 2006 00:49, Sven Luther wrote: > 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.
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