Is The ATI Driver Really "Evil"?

Posted by Michael Larabel on January 30, 2007

Coming across this Digg article yesterday afternoon I found many of the comments to be quite inaccurate (and in some cases comical). A majority of the comments consisted of users bashing the fglrx drivers by typing a variety of obscenities. Those that had bothered to explain themselves were mostly disturbed due to the lack of Composite and Beryl/Compiz support. But does this really equate to the driver being evil and ATI/AMD not caring about their customers? Additional comments on this situation can be read at MichaelLarabel.com.

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