[Wine] ATI (rv350) + open-source driver + wine gaming issues

[Daniel Kasak]

On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 18:52 -0500, Wintershade wrote:


> Oh. I see.
> 
> Any chance that the ATI/AMD driver will become completely open-source, as it was announced some time ago? (not sure whether it was officially, though)


This is highly unlikely. ATI / AMD don't own all the intellectual
property in their closed-source driver. However I read in the Xorg
mailing list that they *have* started paying developers to work on the
open-source drivers ( as Intel are ).


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