On 7/30/07, Edward McAuley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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
I think it's quite possible that ATI outsourced parts (or all) of their driver development for Solaris. But this is pure speculation.
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