Unfortunately AMD has also started implementing DRM. There is no good answer
to the problem and why we need to move away from Intel/AMD/NVIDIA.
That'll happen once there is sufficient demand. There are people working on
that demand. I was just talking with someone at the Ohio "Linux" Festival
about the issue and some things he's been up to in relation to this. By
ourselves we won't make any impact. Together this community can make a
difference.
It starts with a guy from company X deciding to purchase from us. That leads
to Y new product which is funded by X's decision to go with our other
product. This leads us to be able to work with a chipset company toward the
release and eventual manufacture of another product.
Then you end up with a 2nd person writing up a proposal to the department in
charge of procurement for new employees. He gets them to OK the purchase of
new employee's purchase options from us...
The point is we're not doing all the work here. It takes a community working
together behind the scenes to make things happen.
There is no way to ship an AMD CPU on a laptop with an older NVIDIA chipset.
If would be more than happy to ship AMD cup's with ATI graphics if AMD worked
with the community to fix this 3d acceleration issue.
We are not shipping Intel's CPUs with the digital restriction bit.
