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Paying nVidia

Posted Jan 17, 2007 18:35 UTC (Wed) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164)
In reply to: Paying nVidia by dion
Parent article: LCA: The state of the Nouveau project

nvidia most likely is not willing to release the sourcecode because there
are many patented algorithms in there, and they are afraid to get sued. of
course they could spend a lot of time and money on checking and rewriting
code, but i guess the FOSS world is just not persuasive enough...

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Paying nVidia

Posted Jan 17, 2007 18:39 UTC (Wed) by dion (subscriber, #2764) [Link]

Well, that's where the Mega Dollar comes in:)