Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 12th Aug 2006 19:01 UTC, submitted by fish reloaded
3D News, GL, DirectX Statement by ATI: "For other markets, such as workstation and consumer, performance and feature differentiation are key metrics. Proprietary, patented optimizations are part of the value we provide to our customers and we have no plans to release these drivers to open source. In addition, multimedia elements such as content protection must not, by their very nature, be allowed to go open source."
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Patents
by pzad on Sun 13th Aug 2006 07:14 UTC
pzad
Member since:
2005-12-23

AFAIK all patents are publically available. Patents are not way to hide something.

RE: Patents
by Carewolf on Sun 13th Aug 2006 08:48 in reply to "Patents"
Carewolf Member since:
2005-09-08

Patents can and are often written in obfuscated language. I don't doubt that in many cases it will be simpler to decompile the NVidia or ATI drivers than to try to read the patents covering them

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