Intel Open Sources Graphics Drivers

PeterBrett writes "Intel's Keith Packard announced earlier today that Intel was open sourcing graphics drivers for their new 965 Express Chipset family graphics controllers. From the announcement: 'Designed to support advanced rendering features in modern graphics APIs, this chipset family includes support for programmable vertex, geometry, and fragment shaders. By open sourcing the drivers for this new technology, Intel enables the open source community to experiment, develop, and contribute to the continuing advancement of open source 3D graphics.' The new drivers, available from the Linux Graphics Drivers from Intel website, are licensed under the GPL for Linux kernel drivers, and MIT license for XOrg 2D & 3D rendering subsystems."

Comments

Now...

[infosec_spaz]

If only a company who makes GOOD graphics cards would do the same!

Re:For verily I say unto you....

[drinkypoo]

Caniving? WTF does that mean, biting something with sharp teeth?

+1 Honesty

[mnemonic_]

Finally, an honest karma whore.

Re:I think we're missing the point here.

[Mycroft_VIII]

Heck, they're even in the same town.
Intell's people could just take short drive for lunch
and pick up Invidia on the back to the office.

Mycroft

Re:Competition from AMD/ATI?

[Briareos]

That's a stupid excuse, though. They could always isolate the SGI-laden parts, LGPL the rest,

Hell, they could spend $5 and buy it from SGI who need every dollar they can get to make it out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Hell, they could spend $5 and buy SGI...