Thank you Alan. I am somewhat confused regarding their approach. They are saying the are going to deliver these drivers, on one hand, but on the other hand they are claiming they cannot because they don't own all of the IP (that part of the development efforts are owned and copyrighted by other companies).
It sounds like what happened when Sun released the bulk of StarOffice into the open source community for the development of OpenOffice -a huge contribution. They were unable to release parts of it due to ownership and copyrights. The difference here is that I haven't seen ATI release anything, yet. However, they are saying they are committed to it and I have heard that they are expanding their development teams, which seems to support their statements. I am new to this issue, and I do not know all of the specifics but I am not one to be too impatient, especially when a company is trying to change its culture and philosophy. Also as I know development time can be protracted in this kind of situation, depending on how much of the code they need to re-write, and they may still be trying to nail down the legal strategy and logistics of their new licensing. What do you think? ejm This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
