On 4/14/06, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Richard Tyrer wrote: [snipped...] > > chips are an anomaly here. All other chips I know of have full > > documentation available. > > Ok that is just laughable. There are so many counter-examples its not > even funny. Easy examples: Ethernet, SATA (areas I deal with every day > in the Linux kernel) and winmodems all have hardware vendors that refuse > to give out docs. > > > >> The law guarantees that they cannot go into the open source market in > >> a big way. > > > > Explain this please! > > > > I suspect that the problem is that they don't have a patent. They can > > <blink> Um... ATI and NV have bunches of patents. Search the patent > database. Graphics is a patent minefield. Have you been reading this > thread at all? >
Thats what OGP is about right? Create a graphics card that avoids patent encumbered technology. Even if that means trying new techniques and api's. Can we do the same for the whole system? Maybe a crsossover switch based system? -- www.smsglobal.net SMS Global Ltd Short Message Service For Seafarers _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
