Comment Nice, if now they only fixed their driver's issues (Score 1) 142
...I would put a lot more trust in this development. Things like hangs and inability to standby (5+ year old problem) or more recently brightness control that worked until approx 14 months ago and since then was never (fully) fixed despite dozens of bug reports. I mean, this is a simple matter of comparing the code for brightness between the version 14+ months ago and the latest one to figure out what is the problem and then fixing it once and for all... Instead, they announce "fix" for it in two consecutive versions, neither of which address the problem in its entirety, and consider it fixed...
Yes, some will argue open-sourcing this may help fix things faster. My experience tells me otherwise whenever you have this level if incompetence involved, because after all it is that same incompetence that will drive the separation of open and closed components... Downvote or not, I would love to be proven wrong so that I can finally install a fglrx driver that actually works as it should.