On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 05:14:59PM +0200, Jonas Maebe wrote: > > On 11 apr 2006, at 17:05, Leonardo E. Reiter wrote: > > >what if I am a hardware vendor in a desperately competitive market, > >such as say, video cards. Releasing my source code to the driver > >would mean giving up some IP that allows me to surpass the > >capabilities of my competitor for a few weeks. > > Actually, the reason ATi and NVidia don't open source their graphics > drivers is because they are both afraid that as soon as as they do > that, the other one will sue them into oblivion based on software > patents. > > See http://wiki.ffii.org/Smirl041025En for the full story. > > > Jonas > >
I wonder, could it be possible that Fabrice is worried about the same thing? Who holds the patents for x86 virtualization technologies? Then again, Fabrice is in France iiuc... > _______________________________________________ > Qemu-devel mailing list > Qemu-devel@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel > -- Infinite complexity begets infinite beauty. Infinite precision begets infinite perfection. _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
