Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in closed source drivers?

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Fri Jan 03 2003 - 03:31:27 EST


On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 21:00, Erik Andersen wrote:
> If they are worried their competitors might try to do the same
> nifty things with competing hardware, they should patent the
> methods used by their nifty 3D hardware. And if you go take a
> look, Nvidia has done exactly that.

Hehe, maybe the issue is just that... other people's patents :-)

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