From: "Jim C. Brown" <jma5@umd.edu>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] why is kqemu closed?
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:25:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060411152527.GA15858@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <68BDF8E1-CEAF-4900-A0E5-FB91E913F1D4@elis.ugent.be>
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 05:14:59PM +0200, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>
> On 11 apr 2006, at 17:05, Leonardo E. Reiter wrote:
>
> >what if I am a hardware vendor in a desperately competitive market,
> >such as say, video cards. Releasing my source code to the driver
> >would mean giving up some IP that allows me to surpass the
> >capabilities of my competitor for a few weeks.
>
> Actually, the reason ATi and NVidia don't open source their graphics
> drivers is because they are both afraid that as soon as as they do
> that, the other one will sue them into oblivion based on software
> patents.
>
> See http://wiki.ffii.org/Smirl041025En for the full story.
>
>
> Jonas
>
>
I wonder, could it be possible that Fabrice is worried about the same
thing? Who holds the patents for x86 virtualization technologies?
Then again, Fabrice is in France iiuc...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-11 15:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-10 15:16 [Qemu-devel] why is kqemu closed? Rakotomandimby Mihamina
2006-04-10 15:20 ` Hetz Ben Hamo
2006-04-10 15:47 ` Auke Kok
2006-04-10 15:55 ` Hetz Ben Hamo
2006-04-10 15:56 ` Leonardo E. Reiter
2006-04-11 4:37 ` Auke Kok
2006-04-11 7:58 ` Brad Campbell
2006-04-11 16:22 ` Jim C. Brown
2006-04-11 8:37 ` Ricardo Almeida
2006-04-11 9:46 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-04-11 10:05 ` Jamie Lokier
2006-04-11 15:05 ` Leonardo E. Reiter
2006-04-11 15:14 ` Jonas Maebe
2006-04-11 15:25 ` Jim C. Brown [this message]
2006-04-11 16:04 ` Jonas Maebe
2006-04-11 15:36 ` Paul Brook
2006-04-11 15:43 ` M. Warner Losh
2006-04-11 16:00 ` Paul Brook
2006-04-11 16:29 ` M. Warner Losh
2006-04-11 16:09 ` Jim C. Brown
2006-04-11 17:10 ` Enough already! " Bakul Shah
2006-04-11 15:17 ` Sebastian Kaliszewski
2006-04-11 15:31 ` M. Warner Losh
2006-04-11 12:33 ` andrzej zaborowski
2006-04-11 13:58 ` Jamie Lokier
2006-04-11 15:10 ` Sebastian Kaliszewski
2006-04-11 15:19 ` M. Warner Losh
2006-04-10 15:57 ` Brett (Mare) Henley
2006-04-10 16:02 ` Leonardo E. Reiter
2006-04-10 19:11 ` M. Warner Losh
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