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This seems unfair considering ATI was bought by AMD and now has completely different leadership. The recent moves towards FOSS are pretty much post AMD buyout.

AMD is so far behind at this point that it will take many years before they can leverage a strong market position to try to push some proprietary solution. If they survive at all.

I agree, at the moment I use mostly AMD at home [i]because[/i] the lower end server processors I can afford don't have the feature sets gimped like Intel, and their consumer GPUs support IOMMU passthrough that NVIDIA needlessly restricts to professional cards.

It may only be their weak market share that inspires their generosity, but it's hooked me and certainly has me rooting for their continued existence.