Anthony Gorecki wrote: > On Monday, July 04, 2005 10:14 pm, Stuart Longland wrote: > >>Why stop there? Why not extend it to hardware manufacturers that make >>heavy use of patents? >> >>Good luck finding a decent video card for that lovely desktop of yours. :-) > > I'm still holding out hope that the open sourced video card project (of which > I can't recall the name) will have some degree of success. It'll likely be > some time before they'll even be able to release a (conservative) moderately > powerful graphics card. > > The likelyhood of them competing with nVidia is fairly low, but I suppose > that > the same was once said of AMD versus Intel.
I think I recall that one... Tech Source if I'm not mistaken... http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109831011607347&w=2 I too would love to see a decent open-source friendly graphic card. ATI have been pretty good with their r200-based cards... although the driver's still got quite a bit to be desired. I think a completely open player in the field might just be what the industry needs. But that's offtopic for this thread :-) -- ____ _ Stuart Longland (a.k.a Redhatter) / _ \ ___ ___ __| |__ __ __ Gentoo Linux/MIPS Cobalt and Docs - (_) \ / \ ; \(__ __)/ \ / \ Developer \ // O _| / /\ \ | | | /\ | /\ | / / \ /__| / \ \ | | | \/ | \/ | (___/ \____/|_; |_| \_/ \__/ \__/ http://dev.gentoo.org/~redhatter
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