> Why don't you release source? To protect the intellectual property. > Well, duh! That's why everyone holds back source. So allow me to > translate..
That IP story is for the most part not even credible. If they were worried about "software IP" they would release hardware docs and let us get on with writing drivers that may well not be as cool as theirs but would work. If they had real IPR in their hardware then they would hold patents on it and would be able to take action against (or license it) to anyone else making hardware. That would apply even outside the USA where software patents are generally not valid. The only hardware IP they'd need to protect would appear to be anything that revealed they used other people's IPR without permission or licenses. Given the Nvidia/3Dfx affair I can see why they would be worried about that given it cost them $70M and 1 million shares. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
