[FSF] Join RMS Against ATI

[Tony Wieczorek]

As you may be aware, ATI makes video cards for which it refuses to 
publish the specifications; as a result, free software cannot support 
them. (There is a project to build a free driver based on reverse 
engineering, and it mostly works, but there are still some mysterious 
details which are obstacles to getting it to work.)

On Wednesday, April 26, the "compiler architect" of ATI will speak at 
MIT's CSAIL Department in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. (4pm, G7 lounge.)
<http://www.csail.mit.edu/events/eventcalendar/calendar.php?show=event&id=1104>

Richard Stallman, the President of the FSF, will be in attendance and 
thinks it would be useful for several of our Associate Members to be 
there as well to put ATI on the spot about this problem--and make sure 
he can't evade the issue.  ATI should not be able to gain kudos for work 
that treats the public badly.  If something shouldn't be done at all, 
there's nothing good about "doing it well".

If you will be in the Cambridge, Massachusetts area tomorrow, I 
encourage you to attend the speech. Please do let Richard know directly 
if you will be attending <address@hidden>.
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Tony Wieczorek
Program Assistant

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