Arjan van de Ven wrote:
There probably are patents involved, but those don't in general
prevent
open sourcing something unless you're on the wrong end of the stick.
Yup that's likely, and if they opened the code, we'd still have our
hands tied like with the MP3 code.
OTOH, there's a trend lately of companies "pledging" their patents to
the Open Source community (Nokia, CA, IBM...). Would it help if Nvidia
did the same ?
-denis