Vendor support (was Re: The ati petition)

[Vladimir Dergachev]

On Sat, 4 Sep 2004, Lee Revell wrote:

> On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 20:27, Rogelio M.Serrano Jr. wrote:
>> [snip]
>>> http://unichrome.sf.net
>>> http://www.via.com.tw
>>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> I think it was mentioned elsewhere that this is NDA only.
>
> The drivers are open source.  Are you saying we should make a
> distinction between open source drivers written under NDA and open
> source drivers written from freely available docs?

Actually yes. Now, of course, it is very nice to have Open Source drivers,
but availability of documentation is very important too - it allows for 
easy influx of new people. Not to mention the fact that support for more 
esoteric features will happen faster if there is easy access to 
documentation.

                             best

                               Vladimir Dergachev

>
> Seems to me the meaningful distinction here is between open source and
> binary only.
>
> Lee
>
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