[Arm-netbook] firefly 3399 all source software disclosed?

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 1:54 PM, mike.valk at gmail.com <mike.valk at gmail.com> wrote:

> I guess the company's building those GPU are too scared that if they open
> their drives their competitors see the copyright and/or patent infringement
> their design has.

 eexactly.  the "big boys" - nvidia, intel, amd - are the ones less
adversely affected, because their patent portfolio is larger and more
well-established i.e. has precedence.

 the "upstarts" are the embedded GPU designers, who, yeah, exactly as
you say, will have almost certainly been infringing various patents.

> Thankfully Imation is going to die soon. Apple has announced to create their
> own GPU. and rob Imation from 60% of their income. Imation anounced a patent
> war agains Apple.

 ... except somebody forgot to tell their CEO that the patents they
were expecting to bludgeon apple with... have expired.  someone at
apple was paying attention, whilst imgtec wasn't.

 i want to laugh quite a lot... but it would be unkind to do so, and,
additionally, this is far from over.

> SCO Unix anyone?

 looking forward to it.  it's about time. we _have_ told them again and again

 l.