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Trident Micro Changes Policy Toward XFree86

Posted by HeUnique on from the and-they-indirectly-supported-linux-since-'94 dept.

Alex writes: "According to Egbert on the Xpert Xfree86 mailing list, Trident Microsystems, who makes video chipsets for low end PC's and notebooks, has changed its policy towards open source developers. Get the details here." If you want to email Trident Micro Public Relations, please be polite! Flaming will only hurt the chances that Trident will reverse this decision.

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  1. Boo Hoo by norculf · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Don't ATI and NVidia make better portable video chips anyway? Just don't buy a laptop with a Trident chip...

  2. Code monkeys by NewbieSpaz · · Score: 2, Redundant

    For future cards, can't some talented hackers figure out a solution? I mean, isn't that what open-source is (partially) about? Before hardware vendors started to 'supply' drivers, coders in the community wrote their own.

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  3. Re:CyberBlade XP, eh? by stevenballmer · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yes. Trident has been assimilated by Microsoft. They will now service us. Resistance is futile.