ATI is reported to not plan to release their drivers into OpenSource

. Too bad. And I don’t plan to buy any more ATI graphics. I’ll go with Intel.

Actually it would be sufficient if they would release the specifications. We don’t really want to see their “patented optimizations” (which probably are just for cheating in known 3D benchmarks anyway, so what would we gain from that?).

We’d be happy if we were allowed to distribute the already written independent driver. Which is blocked by an NDA, not by some “patented optimizations”.

Anyway, I’ll buy a new laptop end of this year, and guess what - it will have Intel graphics. They’ve already released drivers for their next chip to be released.

My current laptop, an IBM Thinkpad A31p, has an ATI graphics board. Which is not supported by the ATI driver. Fortunately there is an opensource driver which works fine, with 3D acceleration. Another reason I’m not going to buy any ATI, you never know when they decide to no longer support your board.