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On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 18:52 -0500, Wintershade wrote:<BR>
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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)
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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 ).<BR>
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