Originally posted by hoohoo
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Like so:
Doing this does NOT give away any trade secrets about the structure of the silicon. There are no copycat clones of AMD/ATI silicon around due to AMD/ATI having released the programming specifications linked above. All that has resulted is an open source driver written by developers at Xorg.
Releasing these programming specifications has hurt AMD/ATI ... not one teent tiny solitary bit.
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