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Subject: Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in closed source drivers?
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 21:00, Erik Andersen wrote:
> If they are worried their competitors might try to do the same
> nifty things with competing hardware, they should patent the
> methods used by their nifty 3D hardware.  And if you go take a
> look, Nvidia has done exactly that.

Hehe, maybe the issue is just that... other people's patents :-)

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