VIA’s Open-Source Efforts A Bluff?

Last month we reported on VIA’s new open-source driver efforts that was announced at the LF Austin Summit. This new strategy involves VIA providing the open-source community with NDA-free hardware specifications, code, and other resources — in a similar fashion to what ATI/AMD and Intel have been doing for some time now. However, not everyone has been satisfied by this announcement and their new Linux website isn’t yet exactly useful. We explore the VIA Linux situation in this article as well as sharing what two open-source developers have to say.