Re: [Trisquel-users] ATI Graphics Cards

[Igor . Zobin]

It should be added, that the drivers for 3D support are there, they just  
require the binary firmware to be loaded at runtime to execute some functions  
(like 3D rendering). AMD does not want to make that firmware open source. An  
AMD/ATI official stated in a forum that this is due to their DRM. It is  
inside the firmware and making it open source will defeat the purpose of the  
DRM, because it will be quite easy to just work around it. So the official  
version is not that they are afraid of someone else stealing some important  
information from the firmware or something like that. Just the DRM.