[plug] Anyone using nVidia graphics chipsets ?

[Chris Caston]

On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 12:48, Leon Brooks wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 April 2003 23:54, Chris Caston wrote:
> > Clearly they should stand as a role model to all hardware manufactures.
> > Except for the bit about not making the drivers GPL which is
> > understandable given their competition.
> 
> Is it? They only have one serious competitor, and the odds against said 
> compewtitor NOT having reverse-engineered everything NVidia do are quite low. 
> The only losers are those not competing.
> 


I don't think that would be legal. The last thing ATI would want is to
get sued.

> In NVidia's defense, they have opened everything that's not directly 
> addressing their hardware (e.g. framework for the Ethernet driver).
> 
> Cheers; Leon
> 
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