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Two views on VIA's open source release

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It appeared the open source community had a bone thrown to it by VIA, which announced open driver source codes earlier this month. However, those experienced in providing the needed Linux drivers, including developers of the Unichrome Project, said there are still proprietary roadblocks in using VIA's released drivers with Linux. They add that while their pure open source project is successfully bridging the gap, VIA would have been better off participating in the community effort rather than forking code for the sake of its press releases.

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AnonymousCoward ·
XGI simply handed a copy of the sources to XFree86 and X.org instead of messing around on their own.

It's also worth noting that XGI released the source for their 2D stuff within a couple of months of going to market, but VIA and before them S3 have been in the market "forever" and never before released anything serious.

Now all I have to do is find a WestOz dealer for their cards.
libv ·
Isn't XGI Sis and Trident thrown together? And isn't the XGI driver Thomas Winnishofer's sis driver that's been adapted to suit some new versions of, well, pretty much the same hardware?

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