[plug] Anyone using nVidia graphics chipsets ?

Leon Brooks leon at brooks.fdns.net
Thu Apr 3 15:32:36 WST 2003


On Thursday 03 April 2003 15:08, Chris Caston wrote:
> 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
>> competitor 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.

Maybe in the USA. It's certainly legal in Australia. It wouldn't be too hard 
for ATI to find another spot closer to their head office where it would be 
legal. Mexico?

Cheers; Leon



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