Comments on: Phoronix on Open Source Graphics Drivers

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Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:26:57 +0000

I have entered one of the so-called NDA projects before, but I don’t even need to sign anything to join. Soon enough, the original developer simply stop developing altogether. If these developers are technically competent enough to enter one of these NDA agreements, removing watermarks is the least of their worries. Besides, if they only leak modified source codes, they have little risk of giving away their ids.

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Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:55:24 +0000

Many of these open source developers who had enough credibility to receive NDA docs also have professional reputations that they would be risking by breaking the terms of the NDA. Watermarks are not easy to remove if only the creator knows where they are.

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Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:40:32 +0000

…Because they are playing by the rules too much. Take for example, the R200/R300/R420 development. Many of these developers who signed NDAs are already lost interests, and ATI had essentially abandoned the product. If these developers really want to continue their causes, these developers should have learnt to bend some rules, i.e. leak the specs in some anonymous file sharing network like freenet, and strip out any user identifierble contents. After all, it worked wonders for cracking AACS…

By: rafaMEX

rafaMEX — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:22:09 +0000

[i] would love to get either NVIDIA and ATI to actually give us the specs on the drivers we want…
[/i] /yawn