Happy 3rd Birthday To AMD's Open-Source Strategy

"It was three years ago on this day that we were the first to detail AMD's open-source strategy. Yep, it's only been three years since AMD became public with pushing out NDA-free GPU documentation and register specifications, open-source code for the xf86-video-ati and Mesa drivers, and employed a small set of developers to contribute towards their open-source Linux stack. It was also three years ago from this month that the now deceased RadeonHD driver was launched.

"The 6th of September, 2007 was the date that AMD decided to let us share their open-source strategy with the world, which came days after exclusively detailing AMD's new Catalyst Linux driver at the time that finally leveled the playing field between AMD and NVIDIA for their proprietary Linux drivers."

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