Comments on: Links – Good Friday: Open Source ATI/AMD in 3-D; Vista SP1 Causing Trouble, As Expected http://techrights.org/2008/03/21/open-source-atiamd-in-3-d/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2008/03/21/open-source-atiamd-in-3-d/comment-page-1/#comment-6981 Roy Schestowitz Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:14:21 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/03/21/open-source-atiamd-in-3-d/#comment-6981 Robert, you're right. I confused it with another project and the headline didn't help. Robert, you’re right. I confused it with another project and the headline didn’t help.

]]> By: Robert Millan http://techrights.org/2008/03/21/open-source-atiamd-in-3-d/comment-page-1/#comment-6978 Robert Millan Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:57:38 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/03/21/open-source-atiamd-in-3-d/#comment-6978 What AMD/ATI have just released is not "open source" (or free software)! It's a big blob of binary data: http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=mesa/drm.git;a=blob;h=89d2a2414c10878b68e23be8429516adb69e5caa;hb=1021799b6ca6b195ad2d5f002e45668f69c44651;f=shared-core/radeon_cp.c Please don't claim this is an "open source milestone". It simply means their binary firmware is under a more permissive license. Which is good (as in, a step in the right direction), but only maginally. What AMD/ATI have just released is not “open source” (or free software)! It’s a big blob of binary data:

http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=mesa/drm.git;a=blob;h=89d2a2414c10878b68e23be8429516adb69e5caa;hb=1021799b6ca6b195ad2d5f002e45668f69c44651;f=shared-core/radeon_cp.c

Please don’t claim this is an “open source milestone”. It simply means their binary firmware is under a more permissive license. Which is good (as in, a step in the right direction), but only maginally.

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