On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 11:22:00AM +0100, Volker wrote: > Hi! > > I've followed the thread "don't buy ati products" not very closely > but one thing comes to mind: > > Years ago we've had a lot of card / chip manufacturers on the > market. When thinking about this currently really just two chip > manufacturers are coming into my mind. This is bad. > > It's probably a crazy idea but what about an open source graphics card? > > There are similar projects already like OsCar so the idea of open > source hardware development is not really new but probably exciting. > Aren't there any hw devs reading and motivated? > > Imagine a graphics chip with a BSD style license... ;) > > Just dreaming?
You are not the first to have this idea. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Graphics_Project for information about one actual attempt to make such a card. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
