Petition to obtain decent linux drivers from VIA

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Recently (actually just now!) we put up a petition to VIA to obtain decent video drivers for Linux. VIA has ignored the Linux community for years and released poor, unmaintained and buggy drivers (actually unusable) just to pretend to support linux (and sell more of their mini-itx motherboards).

This is the link to the petition:
http://www.petitiononline.com/vialinux/

If this topic is too OT, please lock it or do what you think is best. In my opinion this isn't too OT for the Off-Topic forum

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sts · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 97

That's a good reason not to purchase VIA products.

Also:
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.asp
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dforsyth · Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 9:31 pm Post subject:

I'll sign it as soon as I get flash on FreeBSD.
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StarDragon · Guru Joined: 19 Jun 2005 Posts: 390 Location: tEXas

Amen brother, via units are typically sold with cheap laptops. Only rich people can afford to avoid via.

slycordinator · Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 9:34 pm Post subject:

If they do release good drivers some other group is gonna bitch that they want VIA to release them under GPL.

And since openchrome already exists as a GPL driver for VIA video chipsets, I fail to see what the big deal is.

Zepp · Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 9:52 pm Post subject:

freelight · Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:03 pm Post subject:

I seem to recall an online petition to end online petitions, but it failed.
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bunder · Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:11 am Post subject:

dforsyth · Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:33 am Post subject:

bunder · Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:45 am Post subject:

curtis119 · Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 7:14 am Post subject:

ummmmmmm buy Intel? If VIA doesnt get it then they go out of business....
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djdunn · Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 7:38 am Post subject:

petitions are useless...

they are aware they don't release something for Linux, and if they think they can make enough money to justify developing and releasing something for anything, they will release it. even open sourcing something will cost the company to host to provide employees to oversee and control the development of the open source project. resources to make the code available bandwith and everything like that.

moral of the story

free software may be free, but freedom has its price.
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dforsyth · Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 10:11 pm Post subject:

Dralnu · Veteran Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 1919

I might sign, if I had ever seen notice of anything I've ever looked at using VIA...
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Lepaca Kliffoth · Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 10:19 pm Post subject:

VIA's standing doesn't depend on the opinion of Linux users. This thread is made of fail.
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8086 · n00b Joined: 12 Dec 2007 Posts: 52

I opened this thread for the first time and I had no idea why. And then I hit the final post. I guess I'm drawn to memes as sharks are drawn to blood.

Alas: FreeBSD+Flash thing -- count me in.

Shadow Skill · Veteran Joined: 04 Dec 2004 Posts: 1022

I would think that a boycott of Via integrated video chipsets might be more effective.
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dforsyth · Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 2:30 am Post subject:

curtis119 · Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 2:32 am Post subject:

xerxian · Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 5:34 am Post subject:

Wait, VIA is still in business? Could have fooled me, havent seen their gear being at all common since nVidia jumped into the chipset market.
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bunder · Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 11:43 am Post subject: