On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 06:45, Igor Izyumin wrote: > Sometimes, they don't have a choice.
Yeah, like about once in every two blue moons. > They may have trade secrets or > something within the driver that would prevent it from being open-sourced. > For example, if nVidia open-sourced their driver, their competitors could > use their work for their own chips. Do you think they want that? No, I don't. But it _is_ a totally bogus excuse. Their competitors _will_ be clean-rooming their chips and disassembling their drivers anyway. It's one of those if-you-outlaw-guns-then-only-outlaws-will-have-guns problems. As things stand, *only* their competitors have access to their `secrets' and not you or I, not their more-or-less friends! What could be a worse situation than that? Better to also give their allies access, no? Some point-haired-boss moron lawyer makes that decision, not someone with their brains actually operating. Cheers; Leon
