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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

  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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