Alex Deucher, a free software developer who lately is responsible for much of the work on the xf86-video-ati driver, has today announced that he has joined AMD. Beginning next month, Alex Deucher will be an AMD employee and will be working on the AMD's open-source initiatives. He will be working on the open-source ATI drivers and working with the open-source community at large. Alex had announced this on his
personal blog. Last week at Phoronix we reported that
AMD was hiring personnel for their open-source work.