On Wednesday 18 December 2002 11:20 pm, you wrote: > On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 08:10:30PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > You have to balance things out. Yes, the US is litiginous, and clearly way > > too much so. Is the answer to just cower in a hole and hope it passes? > > Maybe. And maybe not. > > Maybe the proper course of action would be to try to come up with a > workalike mechanism which doesn't infringe on the patent. For example, > using an approximation of the actual algorithm. I seem to recall that the > S3TC algorithm is basically a simple "store every corner of an NxN square > at full precision and store the gradients at a lower precision" > algorithm... > > Also, what about doing hardware-only support, and just breaking for > software fallback? Then it'd be up to the hardware (which ostensibly has a > license) to implement the algorithm.
What about just implementing it as a patch hosted outside the U.S.? Leave the choice up to the users just like with decss. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Order your Holiday Geek Presents Now! Green Lasers, Hip Geek T-Shirts, Remote Control Tanks, Caffeinated Soap, MP3 Players, XBox Games, Flying Saucers, WebCams, Smart Putty. T H I N K G E E K . C O M http://www.thinkgeek.com/sf/ _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
