Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)

[Clayton Milos]

> On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:58:34 -0500
> "Nikolas Britton" wrote:
>
>> We need to start hounding on AMD to publish the developer
>> documentation for all radeon chipsets. I for one will not buy any AMD
>> or ATI components until they decide to fix the problem.
>
> Brilliant.  Let's destroy years of good will with AMD, a company that has
> been very good about supporting open source and providing good 
> documentation
> for their products.
>
> Let's hound them about something that is probably not under their control,
> since they don't own all of the "IP" in the ATI products, just as nVidia
> doesn't own everything it sells.
>
> This is the kind of thing that turns people and companies away from open
> source.
>
>> Here's the email address of AMD's president: <deleted>
>
> Quite acting like a child.  Would you like it if someone posted your email
> address publicly like this to be harvested for spam and useless zealotry?
>
>
>
> -- 
> shannon           | There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not
>                  | philosophers.


Well said Charles.

Will the children please refrain from posting to the list.

-Clay