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Dell Asking ATI For Better Linux Drivers

Posted by kdawson on from the please-sir-can-i-have-a-little-more dept.

Open Source IT writes "According to a presentation at Ubuntu Live 2007, Dell is working on getting better ATI drivers for Linux for use in its Linux offerings. While it is not known whether the end product will end up as open source, with big businesses like Google and Dell now behind the push for better Linux graphics drivers, hopefully ATI will make the smart business decision and give customers what they want."

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  1. Re:GPL or nothing by Jherek+Carnelian · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    However, in the real world, a lot of things won't get done unless someone is compensated in some way.
    ...
    Over 45 years, I've seen that most people who declare things should be free do not contribute a bit of their time to help things be free. They want to be compensated for their time but they want to get everything free. Gee, just what about the CURRENT drivers is not little-f free already?

    You've misconstrued the OP's point in an entirely non-sensical fashion.

    The FREE the OP was talking about wasn't the free-for-no-money kind of free, because we already have that with the current drivers. It was the free-as-in-freedom kind of free. Nothing about freedom requires that people go without compensation.