Happy 3rd Birthday To AMD's Open-Source Strategy

[tball]

Thank you ATI/AMD for the awesome oss driver. I will look forward to r600 galium3d support.

[Melcar]

Happiness .

[energyman]

yeah, that opensource strategy was a really big reason to buy a 3870 and later a 5770.

[Khudsa]

Thank you AMD and thank you Michael!

[whizse]

Only three years? It seems longer, considering how much has been accomplished already.

[pingufunkybeat]

You earned my purchase with this open-source strategy, and all the subsequent purchases I will make in the near future.

I'm not the only one. Thanks for doing things the right way.

[snogglethorpe]

Thanks AMD!!!

You didn't choose the simplest path, but you chose the right one, for both your customers and your company's future.

[...happily running 3d apps on my R780 right now, using the free driver...]

[disi]

Thanks for releasing the code. And thanks to the people working on the drivers.

I have seen the progress they made for my RV740 chip, from not beeing able to properly render 2d images on the desktop to a full blown opengl composite desktop...

BUT 3 years and I still cannot play Eve Online on my Linux box, using the driver

[Tsiolkovsky]

Thank you AMD and keep it up! Hope it grows even stronger in the future.

[sylware]

3 years... time to improve it: earlier publication of hardware programming manual/code. Indeed we got evergreen usable stuff just a few months before the release of the next gpu generation and a year after the release of evergreen.