> No we were discussing the video drivers! Oops, I haven't heard the video chip being referred to as chip*set* so far.
> this is where it gets difficult for me, are you also saying that an > author of a book should not get royalties of be able to have copyright > protection? where is the difference? The author sells a book. Oops, it's open source, and it doesn't hinder the sales. nvidia sells hardware, but to be able to use the hardware, it needs a tiny bit of software. There's no IP in that software. In any case, both author and nvidia keep copyright protection. Hey man, have you stolen^H^H^H^Hcopied that latest piece of nvidia software driver yet? It makes the card you don't have go twice as fast. Yeah right. > people train to become > programmers, and some become good at it. they write software. why > shouldn't they sell it if they want to? Fine. Some people train to be hardware engineers. They make hardware. Why shouldn't they sell their hardware? Fine. If they decide to keep a by itself utterly useless piece of software under close guard, turning their whole product into a pain, that's their decision. I feel free to call that product a few names then. Remember how Matrox wasn't having anything with source drivers, until they got bashed into releasing it? Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
