GNU asks Taiwan PC makers to free their drivers

From: Patrick (sales_at_linuxfree.net)
Date: 05/27/05

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    TAIPEI -- Richard Stallman, one of the main forces behind the GNU/Linux
    operating system and the free software movement, is in Taiwan on a new
    front -- to get the island's PC makers to release source code for their
    drivers.
    "We just need the information about what their drivers have to do," Stallman
    said during a speech at the National Taiwan University in Taipei on
    Wednesday. Then GNU software writers can create code for open source
    systems, he said.
    Last month, two Taiwanese makers of graphics chips released the source code
    for some of their drivers to the open source community.
    Via Technologies and XGI Technology both released source code for some
    products, mainly graphics chip and display drivers. The idea is that
    developers will be able to use the code to create drivers for operating
    systems not supported directly by the vendors. 

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