VIA’s Linux Dreams Are Not Materializing

“Back in 2008 there was the announcement from the Linux
Foundation Collaboration Summit in Texas that VIA had joined the
open-source driver bandwagon after having abandoned previous
open-source attempts. However, for the past two years, this has
largely been a media bluff. VIA Technologies did things like
appoint an open-source liaison (Harald Welte, who is actually no
longer contracted by VIA and didn’t even do much for their
efforts), launch a VIA Linux web-site (that is ill-maintained and
two years later there are still portions of the site “under
construction”), but they have done some things like put out some
code and republishing old documentation. We’re almost half-way
through 2010 and it doesn’t look like VIA will be doing much this
year for their open-source graphics drivers.

“In late 2009 an article was published entitled VIA’s Linux TODO
List… Maybe Look Forward To 2011? where we looked at their actual
efforts since their 2008 open-source announcement and then at their
newest TODO list they had shared with the open-source
community.”

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