On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 01:06:05AM +0000, David Johnson wrote: | 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.
I don't know whether MS wants to design chips this time or not. (They have been deeply involved with that in the past, so I wouldn't rule it out.) But Microsoft cross-licenses and sublicenses substantial amounts of intellectual property in order to allow multiple hardware vendors to build products that are compatible with the APIs Microsoft defines. That's one of the reasons D3D acquires new features without as many intellectual property disputes as the OpenGL ARB has faced. Allen _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
