[Openchrome-users] 3d drivers and texture support

[Luc Verhaegen]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 02:34:14PM -0400, Jon Nettleton wrote:
> 
> I have been working with Fiona as a contact for VIA's Open Source
> development group for the past 5 months.  During that time we have
> started implementing a plan to help better integrate their organizations
> work with that of the Open Source community.  One of their concerns was
> that so many developers requesting NDA's and information would be a
> drain on their internal resources.  To help alleviate this we have
> agreed to get a few of our more main stay developers to be put under NDA
> and triage questions from the open source community.  Currently Gabriel
> Mansi and myself are cleared to receive NDA's so we can receive
> datasheets and help answer questions the community members have.  VIA
> has also provided us with contact to two of their Open Source developers
> if we need further support.
> 
> This work with VIA is definitely going in a positive direction, although
> probably a bit slower than most Open Source developers like.  They have
> agreed to try and adopt all freedesktop.org coding standards into their
> own release of the driver to make it easier for upstream merges and
> re-use of code by openchrome.org.  Their intent is to get this done for
> the next release of their Open Source graphics driver, but couldn't
> guarantee it.
> 
> Both sides of the collaboration are working hard to make this a win-win
> situation.  I can only ask that all the members of the openchrome.org
> community bear with us as we work out all the kinks in the communication
> process.
> 
> Jon Nettleton

History repeating, as this really smells like the VIA & EPIOS story all 
over again: http://www.via.com.tw/en/company/events/vtf2006/agenda.jsp

Check out where epios is today at http://www.epios.net/

Apart from that, Jon, i do feel that you're wasting your time and that 
you're just going to be led in circles. If this does slightly work out, 
VIA will use you as a marketing gimmick after which it will forget about 
you altogether.

Luc Verhaegen.
http://unichrome.sf.net/
How more main stay and developer can you get?