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> Competitors have more than enough know how to determine if you're infringing a patent How do you figure? The detectability of infringement is a key factor in
by freyir 9y ago
> Competitors have more than enough know how to determine if you're infringing a patent
How do you figure? The detectability of infringement is a key factor in deciding whether to file a patent.
Regardless, copyright infringement might also be an issue.
- tedunangst 9y agoWell, it's hard to be specific since nobody ever mentions which patents they're talking about. But I would assume that somebody at AMD has the skills to determine whether Nvidia uses the "good matrix" technique, or whatever it is people are assuming AMD patented that Nvidia is trying to hide.
- Justin_K 9y agoIn court, there's a big difference between your assumption vs. published code.
- toast0 9y agoDrivers are published code, freely available. If the driver does something, and you can't find an expert witness to testify it does what it does, maybe it doesn't do what you think? Reading assembly with no comments is a different skill than reading C or C++, especially since it's not always clear what's an instruction and what's data, but it's still reading code, and there are tools to help you trace through it. And most of the drivers aren't writing code like it's a 64k demo (where the code is the data, and the data is the code, and they both modify each other)