News ATI drivers

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Thu Sep 6 21:16:30 PDT 2007


On Thursday 06 September 2007, Daniel Stone wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 10:31:05AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Like changing the stripes on a zebra, or the spots on a leopard.  Rotsa
>> ruck. It will happen when the lawyers for AMD let it, which is never.  At
>> least until we shoot all the lawyers as William Shakespear suggested all
>> those years ago.
>
>Speculation can be somewhat tiring, so it's probably best to wait until
>they announce anything, or not, as the case may be.
>
>> All this is, is buzz to sell the nextgen cards, I've fallen for this bait
>> about $500 worth over the last 10 years.
>
>This is unlikely to register on AMD's balance sheet.
>
I dare say that when 1M of us ignore them, that will be noticeable on a 
balance sheet.  Note please that I am not mixing AMD and ATI here, I'm an AMD 
fan & have been for at least a decade.  The ATI horse may now be in the same 
barn, but its a different pen.

>Cheers,
>Daniel



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Cheers, Gene
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