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It's official: ATI Radeon drivers to be open sourced

Story: a new road for AMD and ATITotal Replies: 1
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henke54

Sep 06, 2007
10:27 AM EDT 		http://www.linux.com/feature/119049
Sander_Marechal

Sep 06, 2007
2:41 PM EDT 		It's a bit of a misleading title, but great news :-) If I understand it correctly, ATI won't simply open the code for their current drivers but write new drivers, together with the community. Probably because there's too much non-ATI code in the current closed drivers. It's likely that parts from the closed source drivers will be ported to the open drivers though.

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