Opinion: NVIDIA drivers are a Good Thing [tm]

[Per Bothner]

Eugen Leitl wrote:

> This mutually assured destruction stalemate very effectively prevents 
> any of the parties volunteering with opensourcing their drivers, and 
> in fact allows any open source drivers infringing on above IP 
> (clean-room reverse engineered, or not: try to prove a negative to anyone
> with deeper pockets than you, in court) to be destroyed by litigation.

In any case clean-room reverse engineering is not a defense against 
patent infringement, only against copyright infringement.
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