http://www.pcpro.co.uk/custompc/news/91 ... brand.html
Chip guru AMD has announced that it's going to drop the ATi brand name following its takeover of the Canadian graphics underdog. Gareth Cater from AMD told Custom PC that 'the new company will be called AMD,' meaning that we could shortly be seeing AMD-branded Radeon graphics chips.
AMD to drop ATI brand
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AMD has been very good at supporting free software in the past, I hope they free up ATi's drivers, specs and documentation, if they did that, I'd go out and buy the most expensive Radeon card which had free drives that I could afford.Patrick wrote:Hopefully they'll improve ATI's historically poor support for Linux. I'd be stoked if their video cards worked as well as Nvidia's.
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How has AMD supported free software? They make very fast very cheap chips, which we like, but that doesn't mean directly support free software.Tsuroerusu wrote:AMD has been very good at supporting free software in the past, I hope they free up ATi's drivers, specs and documentation, if they did that, I'd go out and buy the most expensive Radeon card which had free drives that I could afford.Patrick wrote:Hopefully they'll improve ATI's historically poor support for Linux. I'd be stoked if their video cards worked as well as Nvidia's.
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First of all: http://www.x86-64.org/TankCatNinjaFish wrote:How has AMD supported free software? They make very fast very cheap chips, which we like, but that doesn't mean directly support free software.Tsuroerusu wrote:AMD has been very good at supporting free software in the past, I hope they free up ATi's drivers, specs and documentation, if they did that, I'd go out and buy the most expensive Radeon card which had free drives that I could afford.Patrick wrote:Hopefully they'll improve ATI's historically poor support for Linux. I'd be stoked if their video cards worked as well as Nvidia's.
Also: http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html
And get this: http://www.linuxbios.org/index.php/User:Yhlu
I'm quoting off of the second link:
"The most uncooperative company is Intel, which has started a sham "open source" BIOS project. The software consists of all the unimportant parts of of a BIOS, without the hard parts. It won't run, and doesn't bring us any closer to a BIOS that does run. It is just a distraction. By contrast, AMD has been cooperating by releasing major chunks of their BIOS source code and making their technical experts available."
Also, AMD is very open about technical specs and stuff in general.
Now you see why I say AMD supports Free Software?
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