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[FSF] Join RMS Against ATI
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Tony Wieczorek |
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[FSF] Join RMS Against ATI |
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Tue, 25 Apr 2006 18:10:24 -0400 |
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As you may be aware, ATI makes video cards for which it refuses to
publish the specifications; as a result, free software cannot support
them. (There is a project to build a free driver based on reverse
engineering, and it mostly works, but there are still some mysterious
details which are obstacles to getting it to work.)
On Wednesday, April 26, the "compiler architect" of ATI will speak at
MIT's CSAIL Department in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. (4pm, G7 lounge.)
<http://www.csail.mit.edu/events/eventcalendar/calendar.php?show=event&id=1104>
Richard Stallman, the President of the FSF, will be in attendance and
thinks it would be useful for several of our Associate Members to be
there as well to put ATI on the spot about this problem--and make sure
he can't evade the issue. ATI should not be able to gain kudos for work
that treats the public badly. If something shouldn't be done at all,
there's nothing good about "doing it well".
If you will be in the Cambridge, Massachusetts area tomorrow, I
encourage you to attend the speech. Please do let Richard know directly
if you will be attending <address@hidden>.
--
Tony Wieczorek
Program Assistant
Free Software Foundation (o) +1-617-542-5942 x15
51 Franklin St. Fifth Floor (f) +1-617-542-2652
Boston, MA 02110-1301 (e) address@hidden
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