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From: Jeffrey 'jf' Lim <jfs.world@...>
To: OpenBSD general usage list <misc@...>
Subject: "VIA Announces Strategic Open Source Driver Development Initiative"
Date: Wednesday, April 9, 2008 - 5:31 am

http://www.via.com.tw/en/resources/pressroom/pressrelease.jsp?press_rele...


would this be good news for the community? This is really mainly

Linux-related, but i'm hoping that their mention of "technical

documentation" will be good enough for Open to be able to support them...


-jf


--

In the meantime, here is your PSA:

"It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not

help."

-- Andrew Fear, Software Product Manager, NVIDIA Corporation

http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228
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"VIA Announces Strategic Open Source Driver Development Init..., Jeffrey 'jf' Lim, (Wed Apr 9, 5:31 am)
Re: "VIA Announces Strategic Open Source Driver Development ..., James Crutchfield, (Tue May 6, 8:05 pm)
Re: "VIA Announces Strategic Open Source Driver Development ..., Peter_APIIT, (Wed Apr 9, 10:28 pm)
Re: "VIA Announces Strategic Open Source Driver Development ..., Theo de Raadt, (Wed Apr 9, 1:25 pm)
Re: "VIA Announces Strategic Open Source Driver Development ..., frantisek holop, (Wed Apr 9, 3:07 pm)
Re: "VIA Announces Strategic Open Source Driver Development ..., Zbigniew Baniewski, (Wed Apr 9, 4:57 pm)
Re: "VIA Announces Strategic Open Source Driver Development ..., Jacob Meuser, (Wed Apr 9, 6:49 pm)
Re: "VIA Announces Strategic Open Source Driver Development ..., Zbigniew Baniewski, (Wed Apr 9, 7:11 pm)
Re: "VIA Announces Strategic Open Source Driver Development ..., Jacob Meuser, (Wed Apr 9, 8:08 pm)
Re: "VIA Announces Strategic Open Source Driver Development ..., Zbigniew Baniewski, (Wed Apr 9, 9:41 pm)
Re: "VIA Announces Strategic Open Source Driver Development ..., Alexandre Ratchov, (Thu Apr 10, 3:36 pm)
Re: "VIA Announces Strategic Open Source Driver Development ..., Zbigniew Baniewski, (Thu Apr 10, 3:47 pm)
Re: "VIA Announces Strategic Open Source Driver Development ..., Alexandre Ratchov, (Thu Apr 10, 4:25 pm)
Resampling? [was: "VIA Announces..."], Zbigniew Baniewski, (Thu Apr 10, 6:17 pm)
Re: Resampling? [was: "VIA Announces..."], Alexandre Ratchov, (Fri Apr 11, 7:55 am)
envy24-based card for OpenBSD [was: "VIA Announces..."], Zbigniew Baniewski, (Thu Apr 10, 5:20 pm)
Re: envy24-based card for OpenBSD [was: "VIA Announces..."], Alexandre Ratchov, (Fri Apr 11, 7:57 am)
Re: envy24-based card for OpenBSD [was: "VIA Announces..."], Jacob Meuser, (Fri Apr 11, 5:03 pm)
Re: envy24-based card for OpenBSD [was: "VIA Announces..."], Zbigniew Baniewski, (Thu Apr 10, 6:42 pm)
Re: "VIA Announces Strategic Open Source Driver Development ..., Zbigniew Baniewski, (Thu Apr 10, 4:59 pm)
Re: "VIA Announces Strategic Open Source Driver Development ..., Jeffrey 'jf' Lim, (Wed Apr 9, 10:16 pm)
Re: "VIA Announces Strategic Open Source Driver Development ..., bofh, (Wed Apr 9, 3:35 pm)
Re: "VIA Announces Strategic Open Source Driver Development ..., frantisek holop, (Wed Apr 9, 4:12 pm)
Re: "VIA Announces Strategic Open Source Driver Development ..., Henning Brauer, (Fri Apr 11, 8:32 am)
Re: "VIA Announces Strategic Open Source Driver Development ..., Hannah Schroeter, (Thu Apr 10, 7:53 am)