Re: Exploit in 2.6 kernels

[Chris Friesen]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> Graphics card companies don't realize they are hardware companies not
> software companies and that it is hardware they make their money from?
> Oh and they have too many lawyers?

This has been mentioned before, but I'll say it again.

Nvidia has intellectual property from *other companies* in their 
drivers/hardware.

They are *not allowed* to make the specs public due to their agreements 
with those other companies.

It's that simple.

Chris
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