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> This has been the persistent argument for many years from companies who say they can't release Open Source graphics drivers. What? How can any company claim
by EMIRELADERO 3y ago
> This has been the persistent argument for many years from companies who say they can't release Open Source graphics drivers.
What? How can any company claim that with the patent thing at play? Wouldn't that just be admitting they're violating patents, therefore making the closed-sourceness reason moot in the first place?
Moreover, wouldn't any sufficiently-interested patentholder just reverse-engineer the compiled binary and arrive to the supposed infringment on their own?
- mschuster91 3y ago> Moreover, wouldn't any sufficiently-interested patentholder just reverse-engineer the compiled binary and arrive to the supposed infringment on their own? It's a MAD (mutually assured destruction) situation. You can rest assured that everyone knows about everyone else's rotting corpses in the storage locker... the first one to chicken out to the feds will get blasted to pieces just like everyone else. My personal opinion is that today's patent systems can go and die in a fire for all I care, right after copyright.