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From: Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de>
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* Dan Egli <dan@shortcircuit.dyndns.org>:

Thanks for the fullquote

> I don't think there is a person on this listt that would not prefer to 
> have the source to the nVidia drivers. I know I would. However, I also 
> know that releasing the complete spec to their GPU would be suicide 
> because, as has been pointed out earlier, ATI could get ahold of the 
> information and use it to exploit any weakness in nVidia's GPU.  Plus 
> they could start to incorporate nVidia's instructions into THEIR GPUs 
> and boom. ATI releases a card that has all of their features, plus does 
> 99.5% of what an nVidia card does also. Responce from the computer 

If ATI's so keen on having that data, they would be reverse
engineering nvidia's drivers.

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