From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965163AbWLOVvR (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:51:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965164AbWLOVvR (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:51:17 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:43752 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965163AbWLOVvQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:51:16 -0500 Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 21:59:43 +0000 From: Alan To: James Porter Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Binary Drivers Message-ID: <20061215215943.622dd456@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.8.20; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I personally like nvidia's products, they have spent a lot of money in R&D. One > example is SLI, if their spec was open what would stop ATI from stealing their 3DFx invented SLI many years ago. The SLI programming information for the 3DFx cards is public. Nvidia are a bit late to the party except on the PR front. Alan