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[Daniel Stone]

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 04:54:56PM +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> in a recent story on Slashdot (shame on me, I read it), and interesting
> comment from an anonymous coward:
> 
> "Comments from an ATI engineer"
> 
> If enough people leave the right kind of feedback, those drivers will be
> made open source.
> 
> There are just a few followers in management who think we need to follow
> NVidia's business model. They are wrong.
> 
> <http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=120483&cid=10148516>
> 
> 
> Dunno if it can motivate someone to do something. I don't really know
> what a "right kind of feedback" is.

And there's an entire crowd that think 'OMG UR DRIVERS AM SUCK' is the
way to get ATI to open up their drivers, which is a hugely complicated
and involved process.