On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 02:58:34PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > We need to start hounding on AMD to publish the developer > documentation for all radeon chipsets. I for one will not buy any AMD > or ATI components until they decide to fix the problem. > > Here's the email address of AMD's president: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Give him your two cents.
Boycotting their hardware due to lack-of public developer docs is extreme but justified. Everyone has the right to do that if they desire. But in my opinion, mailing the president of AMD is really not the way to go about this. That methodology invites angry people sending him flames, which does nothing but destroy the image of a mature, reliable open-source community. Besides, chances are it's not Meyer who's making these decisions (re: proprietary hardware / NDA-only documentation), but a few select individuals at ATI who are fuelled off of paranoia (the most common defence being fear nVidia/other competitors will "steal their technology"). Really sounds like the decision of a legal dept. and not a CEO. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
