AMD/ATI will release open source graphic drivers

Posted by Nico Golde in
Wednesday, May 16. 2007

I am not sure if this is old news or not, anyway I didn't notice it until today and maybe others didn't as well.
Some days ago AMD bought ATI for ca. 5,4 billion $ (well that's not the news)

But I missed another interesting thing:
AMD has plans to release the graphics drivers as OpenSource.

Read more on: http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/05/09/amd-will-deliver-open-graphics-drivers/

Oh and there seems to be another side medal:
http://airlied.livejournal.com/43520.html

So it doesn't really look like they want to work with the community, lets see...

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