On 5/27/07, Attila Kinali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, 13 May 2007 11:11:47 +0200 Lourens Veen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Of course, it remains to be seen when this will happen and how open the > drivers are going to be. But at least they seem to be listening. I don't believe it until i see it. In todays cards there is so much done in the driver that a lot of it is patented.
Ok so a court case would have Japanese or USA jurisdiction; practically everywhere else is saner.
Opening this for anyone to review would lead to a long and devastating patent battle which the side with the OSS drivers will lose because of their actually telling what they do.
Anyone you sued could likely end up having their source code open for inspection as well. The person being sued can ask for discovery of their source code as well. Also they can fight against having a protection order that is asymmetrical; ask that protection not be applied to both sets of source codes that make up the drivers. Only those things that it can prove are "trade secrets" would in have any chance of sealing. So you might get redacted driver source code. The court should provide an equitable protection of both sets of source code. http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/ Federal Rules of Civil Procedure http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/Rule26.htm General Provisions Governing Discovery; http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/Rule34.htm Rule 34. Production of Documents and Things and Entry Upon Land for Inspection and Other Purposes -- http://dmoz.org/profiles/pollei.html http://sourceforge.net/users/stephen_pollei/ http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=2455954990164098214 http://stephen_pollei.home.comcast.net/ _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
