I have seriously been waiting for this moment for quite some time. I have loved ATI products since the AIW 8500 DV, and have mourned their lack of good *nix support - certainly never as good as nVidia's (relatively) good Linux drivers, not to mention the kludge that is installing a binary driver under Linux.
Weep no more: ATI is releasing their specifications to the hardware community in order to build open-source drivers. As Anandtech points out, there are a million caveats, such as, this will take a long time, there's no guarantee ATI will actually follow through with a full-featured specification release, we are starting from scratch since they can't/won't release any of their current proprietary code. But still - it's a watershed moment. It's one more thing that actually makes me want to start diving into GNU/Linux development. And there's always that faint possibility of the dream moment, when we actually have a choice of OS to use when running 3D apps.
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