Andrew Berry Development - netbooks http://www.abdevelopment.ca/taxonomy/term/24/0 en VIA shows their lack of support for Chrome9 on Linux http://www.abdevelopment.ca/blog/shows-their-lack-support-chrome9-linux <p>Slashdot has posted an <a href="https://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/16/1219212">interview</a> with VIA's "Open Source" representative. Harald Welte has previously worked with <a href="http://www.gpl-violations.org/">gpl-violations.org</a>, giving him some credibility. However, his answers regarding the Chrome9 video chipset show that it's unlikely that Via "gets" the benefits of true open source support:</p> <div class="field field-type-link field-field-links"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Related Links:&nbsp;</div> <a href="https://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/16/1219212">Answers from Harald Welte, &quot;VIA&#039;s Open Source Representative&quot;</a> </div> </div> </div> <p><a href="http://www.abdevelopment.ca/blog/shows-their-lack-support-chrome9-linux" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://www.abdevelopment.ca/blog/shows-their-lack-support-chrome9-linux#comments free software Interactive Cognitive Computing netbooks Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:13:35 +0000 andrew 46 at http://www.abdevelopment.ca