Re: HARDWARE: Open-Source-Friendly Graphics Cards -- Viable?

From: Timothy Miller
Date: Fri Oct 22 2004 - 23:16:28 EST




John Ripley wrote:

And what would stop them cloning a graphics card with completely Open specs?
That's always an issue no matter what you do.

Our value-add would be the graphics core whose code we wouldn't release until (maybe) the design was a few generations old. Sure, they could clone the functionality, but they's still have to reengineer it from scratch.

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/