Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 14, 2006 12:56 AM
"We feel the statement that we use open source for marketing purposes is unjustified," Gatt says. "We announced over a year ago last April the release of the kernel source code for the Unichrome display drivers, and did precisely that; there was no mention in that announcement of the release of video acceleration drivers source or other VIA IP."
I had high hope for Via with regard to Open-Source, but that basically prove they are not interested in doing anything more than the bare minimum, which is not enough. I'd rather use a good but fully proprietary driver (Nvidia) than a barely open one (Via). Too bad.
Are there any other option in FOSS-friendly graphic chip manufacturer ? Are we really stuck with closed ATI/Nvidia and barely open Via ?
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 14, 2006 12:56 AMI had high hope for Via with regard to Open-Source, but that basically prove they are not interested in doing anything more than the bare minimum, which is not enough. I'd rather use a good but fully proprietary driver (Nvidia) than a barely open one (Via). Too bad.
Are there any other option in FOSS-friendly graphic chip manufacturer ? Are we really stuck with closed ATI/Nvidia and barely open Via ?
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