On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Ian Romanick wrote: > Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: > > Now that there are patches available to support S3TC compressed textures > > on Radeon cards, are there any plans to integrate those patches into the > > DRI source tree? > > Until an agreement can be reached between the open-source community and > the patent holder, IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN! STOP ASKING!!!
Why are you YELLING?!!! It's an easy question that A) I've never heard asked, and B) I've never heard a definative answer (just speculation that pops up every few months, last time before the patches were even available). There's no reason to cop an attitude. Just politely answer: "Due to the legal implications, it's not going to happen at the moment." See how simple that is? If it will never happen this should be noted *prominently* on the DRI website in big bold letters. Otherwise, when it becomes common knowledge that their are patches available and that they aren't being applied to the code base, you can expect a whole hell of a lot more people asking this very simple question, and we wouldn't want to upset you any more than you already are. And then you shouldn't be surprised when peole stop using the open source DRI drivers in favor of closed source drivers. Adam ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
