On 10/01/2009 02:02 PM, Brian Paul wrote: > Greg KH wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 04:21:07PM -0400, Zack Rusin wrote: >>> On Thursday 01 October 2009 14:13:15 Greg KH wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> As discussed at XDC2009 in your talk about patents and xorg, I talked >>>> with the Linux Foundation's Technical Advisory board about the issues >>>> your raised in your talk. >>>> >>>> I have a contact at the LF and OIN to put you in contact with, but >>>> wanted to ask if there was anyone else that wanted in on the email >>>> thread and possible phone call (lawyers love phone calls, not email...) >>>> >>>> Anyone else want in on the fun? >>> I don't know what patent issues you were discussing but I'm guessing it's >>> mainly about the floating point plus s3tc stuff. >> >> Yes, that is what was discussed. >> >>> Just so that you know, we have been trying to handle this in some way >>> for a long time and a few lawyers was already involved in the process. >>> Given that, especially the first one, is explicit in its prohibition >>> of open source, short of buying it as a company I'm not sure what >>> Linux Foundation wants to do. Either way though, Brian is the person >>> to talk to about options here because he's been endlessly trying to >>> come up with ways of dealing with those problems. >> >> Ok, great. Brian, care to talk to OIN and the Linux Foundation about >> this? > > I'm afraid that I don't have much to report at this time. We're > trying to talk to Via/SGI about these things but it's a slow process. > > You can add me to your email/phone list.
I'm *very* interested, but unfortunately I have no weight in these issues. I'd still like to sit in, if I won't be a bother. ~ C. _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list xorg-devel@lists.x.org http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel