Cut AMD some slack. They definitely did the right thing in releasing documentation, which means that those cards will probably end up being supported virtually indefinitely.
Open source driver development is slow, I grant you that, but AMD are even paying developers to work on the open source driver, even though they have no obligation at all to do that (after all, why should they put resources into two different drivers).
To be honest, I have not much experience with fglrx, but it does seem to me like AMD are definitely on the right track - which can't really be said about NVidia. (Of course, Intel is still king of the hill in that respect, even if you account for the desaster that is Poulsbo.)
Open source driver development is slow, I grant you that, but AMD are even paying developers to work on the open source driver, even though they have no obligation at all to do that (after all, why should they put resources into two different drivers).
To be honest, I have not much experience with fglrx, but it does seem to me like AMD are definitely on the right track - which can't really be said about NVidia. (Of course, Intel is still king of the hill in that respect, even if you account for the desaster that is Poulsbo.)
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