so, a new page for downloading drivers is up. I looked at it. it looks.. like if they took their half-employed linux-get-it-to-work-overworked-underpayed staff and forced him/her to set up a webpage instead of coding drivers.
Heck, that's just visuals, so I ignore them. What files is there to download? anything useful? Nope, not at all.
It's beautiful how they don't reply to mails I send them through their own links, it's so nice to see how they think they need to "clean up" their drivers before we can get to look at them.
Yay! Let's collaborate with the folks that love the sentance: "Release early, Release often". Lets see... *thinks*
Yes!, the first thing we should definately do is say, with a polite voice: "We're working on something we don't want you to see, go away and believe that we will eventually give you everything you want."
But sure, this wasn't supposed to be about freedom or free software or their collaboration with the community, since the petition just wanted to ensure there comes a driver along that works. That surely allows them to work in the dark and release beta drivers that not work stating that "we're working on it, have some patience".
So, what was the first thing _I_ did when I heard about this? I went over to #unichrome and the mailinglists for openchrome, those guys should got a feel for the situation.
Guess the response?
something along the lines that VIA never contacted them about it, it's just a press release and nothing really happened. sure, it _could_ happen, but there's no reason to get your hopes up, they did it before they can do it again.
Meh, I hate this. I've spent about $600-900 on via boards because they were supported in linux. because they were going to make things good and released a driver. I've been sitting with these 3 computers for years now and they still can't do such simple things as fade-in/fade-out in opengl without issues.
I've mailed via TWICE over the past years explaining the situation and asking them for suggestions on how to fix things, but they simply wasn't interested in talking, so they ditched it and didn't reply.
And oh, I just read in another forum thread here about how they link here and make it their support forum. That's just.. not good. They are a producer that sells products. They have a support section that you can get in touch with, but they rather send people here than to give them a phone number or email to the right place.
Oh well, this is just some angry ranting over the situation. I bet that some of this I've said is just straight out false and lies, so if you feel like knowing what, go find out.
I would love it if people actually talked with the OpenChrome folks and if people actually managed to get in touch with VIA to have an OPEN conversation where one could ask _any_ question they'd like and actually get a reply.
Great work on the petition btw, ~4500 when I signed mine, if you want a translation to swedish you can always mail me at
roze@roze.mine.nu and we can work something out.
I'm still dissappointed.
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