I think microsoft is trying to kill DRI. It is a big threat to all their products. If the open source community can offer good 3d graphics at low cost then their system will suffer a good loss in market share.
On Friday, January 18, 2002 at 01:06:05 AM, David Johnson wrote: > >Of course we don't know exactly which patents are involved, or what the > >terms of the transfer were. But my guess would be that the patents > >primarily involve hardware, and Microsoft is interested in covering its > >potential liabilities as it moves into the hardware market (though XBox, > >Homestation or whatever it turns out to be, UltimateTV, and various > >embedded systems). > > I actually disagree. I suspect they are more likely to be software patents. > I don't think Microsoft has any intentions on becoming a chip > designer/manufacturer or even a hardware manufacturer. There is very little > inside XBox outside of the software that is Microsoft. Intel makes the CPU. > NVIDIA makes the graphics and media processors. Intel/NVIDIA designed the > motherboard. The hard drive is certainly not Microsofts (IBM?) and > Microsoft almost certainly doesn't manufacturer the XBox. Microsoft is and > I suspect always will be a software development and marketing/distribution > company. I just can't see them having much interest in any of SGI's > hardware patents. > > > David > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Dri-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel > > rogelio e-mail: rogelio@localhost -- Do you VisualMail? Grab a copy of the best WebMailer right now! http://www.mintersoft.com/visualmail _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
