Re: Tech Source's "libre 3D video card" petition

[Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 06:09:21PM +0100, Jama Poulsen wrote:

> Lets hope this project initiave goes as well as the Blender project,
> since the main two GPU manufacturors don't seem to want to free
> their drivers nor their hardware specs (let alone their hardware
> design).

Please note that the project you linked to is _not_ an open hardware
project. It will be as open as Intel's CPUs: You don't know how they
are done, but you know how to program them.

There is also an "ATI, open up specs" petition:
 http://www.petitiononline.com/atipet/