Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267649AbUJVRca (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:32:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267303AbUJVR0F (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:26:05 -0400 Received: from kinesis.swishmail.com ([209.10.110.86]:55567 "EHLO kinesis.swishmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267324AbUJVRVu (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:21:50 -0400 Message-ID: <4179447F.5030004@techsource.com> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:33:51 -0400 From: Timothy Miller MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Ripley CC: "'Greg Buchholz'" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: HARDWARE: Open-Source-Friendly Graphics Cards -- Viable? References: <82D5E38355314D46AF3015FF55F6955802F83516@CORPMAIL3> In-Reply-To: <82D5E38355314D46AF3015FF55F6955802F83516@CORPMAIL3> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 618 Lines: 17 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@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/