Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in closed source drivers?

[David S. Miller]

On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 21:00, Erik Andersen wrote:
> If they are worried their competitors might try to do the same
> nifty things with competing hardware, they should patent the
> methods used by their nifty 3D hardware.  And if you go take a
> look, Nvidia has done exactly that.

Hehe, maybe the issue is just that... other people's patents :-)