nvidia and FC2

Luc Bouchard luc at luker.on.ca
Fri May 21 02:31:46 UTC 2004


Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 13:14 -0400, Jeremy Brown wrote:
>  
>
>>OK, that's part of the issue, but in reality the NVidia driver contains 
>>a number of patented technologies that can't even be legally implemented 
>>in an open source driver.  S3TC comes to mind; please read:
>>    
>>
>
>Contrary to the three options pointed out, there is only one option:
>
>   HELP END THE SOFTWARE PATENT NIGHTMARE!
>
>Rui
>  
>
Exactly how do you propose doing that?  You yourself have stated that 
you do not know of any 3D card that is supported by open source 
drivers.  Please enlighten us so we too can be on the pure path.

Luc Bouchard





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