On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Jacek [iso-8859-2] Popławski wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 11:08:26AM -0500, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> > Why not just leave it up to RedHat, then, to either leave the code in or
> > pull it out?
>
> RedHat was just example. Point is that patent holder may sue anyone who:
>
> - will release XFree86 version with S3TC support
> - has some money
>
> And it is possible that some distribution would remove whole DRI support just
> to not have problems with S3TC.

Then no one will download/purchase/use that distribution.  Their loss :-)

Adam



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