From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>,
Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no>,
John M Collins <jmc@xisl.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Exploit in 2.6 kernels
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 09:22:12 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <425D3924.1070809@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050413132308.GP17865@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Graphics card companies don't realize they are hardware companies not
> software companies and that it is hardware they make their money from?
> Oh and they have too many lawyers?
This has been mentioned before, but I'll say it again.
Nvidia has intellectual property from *other companies* in their
drivers/hardware.
They are *not allowed* to make the specs public due to their agreements
with those other companies.
It's that simple.
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-13 15:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-12 9:34 Exploit in 2.6 kernels John M Collins
2005-04-12 12:24 ` Baruch Even
2005-04-12 15:00 ` John M Collins
2005-04-12 21:08 ` Chris Wright
2005-04-12 21:32 ` John M Collins
2005-04-13 5:28 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-04-13 9:47 ` Helge Hafting
2005-04-13 12:59 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-04-13 13:06 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-04-13 13:23 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-04-13 14:01 ` John M Collins
2005-04-16 2:32 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-04-13 15:22 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2005-04-14 14:01 ` Helge Hafting
2005-04-20 18:17 ` nVidia stuff again Doug Ledford
2005-04-20 23:12 ` Dave Airlie
2005-04-21 11:23 ` Helge Hafting
2005-04-21 12:15 ` Doug Ledford
2005-04-21 12:54 ` Dave Airlie
2005-04-21 13:35 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-04-21 14:43 ` Manu Abraham
2005-04-21 21:17 ` J.A. Magallon
2005-04-22 14:44 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-04-15 15:00 ` Exploit in 2.6 kernels Alan Cox
2005-04-15 16:06 ` Dave Airlie
2005-04-15 16:19 ` Duncan Sands
2005-04-14 12:46 ` Helge Hafting
2005-05-05 22:00 ` Olaf Titz
2005-04-13 13:02 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-04-13 14:26 ` Eric Rannaud
2005-04-13 14:41 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-04-14 20:02 ` Greg Folkert
2005-04-14 22:27 ` John M Collins
2005-05-09 18:37 ` Alessandro Salvatori
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