LXer: It's official: ATI Radeon drivers to be open sourced

LXer · 09-07-2007, 04:30 AM

Published at LXer:

AMD briefed Linux.com this morning on a pending announcement regarding the open sourcing of drivers for ATI graphics cards. It's official -- AMD will make code and specifications for ATI graphics cards available on the Internet on September 10.

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the_darkside_986 · 09-07-2007, 07:13 AM

What...? Is this some kind of joke or something?

Regardless of truthfulness, whichever vendor makes open-source 3D drivers, I will purchase their hardware as my next graphics card. Any of the new stuff will probably be better than my already outdated Nvidia 7300 GS pci-e card.

ErrorBound · 09-07-2007, 04:55 PM

Woohoo!

My next graphics card will be an ATI