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. -- http://trikuare.cx ------------------------------------------------------- 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
