On Mon, 07 Jan 2002 09:26:17 -0500, Randy Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > I'm not a fan of closed source drivers, but this chipset looks too good to > > pass up :-) > > Sridhar, > > I just saw something today about NVidia seizing computer equipment from > some hackers who used some amount of deception to collect information > presumably in order to write drivers for Linux. > > Just saw a headline or snippet and haven't read it thoroughly, > presumably I'll find it again as I go through mail / daily news > updates. Don't know if involves any arrests or anything more than > seizing equipment. > > But, I for one don't plan to reward NVidia by buying anything from them. > > I'll post again when I find a link to the story. > > Randy Kramer
If you mean http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/23551.html, then I don't see any problem with it. The crackers were obviously doing something illegal, by posing as employees and Nvidia partners to breach Nvidia's firewall. Nvidia themselves have no right to seize computer equipment, but they would have sought some sort of court order to allow the police to do so. This is a perfectly normal procedure for trials to do with computer cracking. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan But hey, thats just my 31,000 Turkish Lira.
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