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XGI, VIA Release Open Source Drivers

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the pretty-pictures dept.

An anonymous reader writes "XGI has announced the release of open source drivers for its Volari family of graphics adapters. Efforts at X.Org to merge the new code into the head branch are already underway. Almost simultaneously, VIA has announced the immediate release of open source drivers for S3 Graphics UniChrome, VIA ProSavage and ProSavage DDR. Could these moves signal the beginning of a period of rapid improvement in Free drivers for video cards?"

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  1. Sinatra's Elated! by CrankyFool · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Volari, oh oh, cantari, oh oh oh oh
    Let's fly way up to the clouds, away from the maddening crowds....

  2. Re:Desparate times... by gl4ss · · Score: 0, Redundant

    *Does it suck? yes, very much so, but the world is like that with software patents. Though I am not sure how those patents would apply in this case.*

    if it was *patent* protected it wouldn't matter if the code was open or not. now it's just seeeeeecret 'protected' - which is not really protected at all.

    if they put their minds to it i'm pretty sure they could come up with open sourced drivers quite fast.

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    world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.