"VIA Announces Strategic Open Source Driver Development Initiative"

http://www.via.com.tw/en/resources/pressroom/pressrelease.jsp?press_release_no=2088

would this be good news for the community? This is really mainly
Linux-related, but i'm hoping that their mention of "technical
documentation" will be good enough for Open to be able to support them...

-jf

--
In the meantime, here is your PSA:
"It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not
help."
-- Andrew Fear, Software Product Manager, NVIDIA Corporation
http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228