OT: nVidia driver [was: Wish list] -- nVidia doesn't own a lot of the IP

[Nicolas Mailhot]

On Lun 13 juin 2005 0:03, Paul Iadonisi a écrit :
> On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 17:24 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>> I've seen no evidence that software patents actually
>> promote innovation, and neither have the various
>> studies commissioned by a number of governments.
>>
>> Also, I can't think of a single piece of software
>> that wouldn't have been invented if it weren't for
>> the existance of patents.  Not a single one...
>
>   And those who think otherwise seem to hold the view that direct
> financial gain is the only thing that motivates anyone to produce any
> ideas of worth.  It's a cynical and bogus point of view.

Bogus because no real programmer will know or want to know how to deal
with patents, so they don't figure in his thinking. And people who know
how to file patents have historically been more interested in registering
the obvious than new ideas (this part would require lawyers and
developpers to talk with each other, which is a social impossibility)

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot