--- Daniel Vogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does DRI have a future with neither NVIDIA nor ATI > participating?
I really don't understand ATI's position on Linux drivers. They have better hardware but they are losing because of their drivers. I can't think of a better solution than having a couple hundred highly skilled, performance obsessed, unpaid hackers fixing their code for them. ATI and Nvidia have both disassembled each other's drivers so there are no secrets between the two. Another argument could be that a another chip manufacturer could clone a chip and use the drivers for free. I don't see that happening given the complexity of the chips. Finally ATI could be afraid of patent issues by opening the source. But this would just make the patent issues slightly easier to find, they'd still have the same problems with closed source. If they were being accused the lawyers would get the source anyway. What about bad fixes to the code? ATI can just control the CVS and only apply patches that they are happy with. ATI should continue with their paid developers, just make their changes public too. Linux programmers like to fix things when they are broken. I just removed the ATI radeon drivers from my system and went back to the DRI ones. About once a day the ATI driver will lock up. If I had the source I would have poked around and tried to fix it. Without the source I threw the drivers in the trash. ATI is really underestimating the skills of some of the hackers in the Linux community. Some really good code comes out of those long Siberian/Finnish winters. They are also missing the opportunity to lead in a fast growing market. Just look of the cover of Business Week. ===== Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
