Re: nvidia and FC2

["Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz simpaticus com>]

At 10:43 5/20/2004, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> They don't have to produce the drivers. Interested and capable
> developers only require information on how to talk to the hardware.

OK, so you want them to release this information.

> They're not doing you any favour, but that's still besides the point.
> They would spend far less resources by liberating info on how to talk to
> the hardware.

OK, so you believe it would be cheaper for them to "liberate" the poor 
information.

> NVIDIA has already stated why they can't make
> the drivers free software: they have third party licensed software that
> they didn't do themselves.

OK, so you understand that they have signed non-disclosure contracts and 
are legally forbidden to disclose this information. Because they licensed 
code someone else wrote, they have a binding legal obligation to keep that 
code private. And yet you lambast them for not releasing that code, and you 
tar and feather them for not opening up the code.

From what I can see here, you think that they should save some dough and 
make you happy by freely handing out information which they don't own and 
are by contract obligated to keep private.

I fail to see this as anything other than advice to be completely 
unethical, breach their contracts and licenses, and dishonor their 
commitments. Since I'm sure you'll claim virgin purity, perhaps you'll 
enlighten me to which part of your exact words quoted above I may have misread?


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