video cards

[Oren Beck]

When Open and Closed source meet in the same object there  are two
frequent results.
Legal obfuscation and Code obfuscation.
With a  primary result of total bad karma in the end.
Here's why.
Closed and Open source are by nature Matter V sAnti-matter.

SO??

The Video Card "software" entanglements and soap opera law show
theater profit no one but the lawyers! And hurt the would be users on
both the free and non-free sides. How?

Lawyers cost BIG bucks. Failure to sue has become a liability too.
Failure to "protect" IP can cause you to lose a wholly unrelated case
due to "lack of diligence"
Which brings this back to the beginning and end of why GPL came to be
born. A certain case of wanton software lock in -or more semantically
correct to say lock *OUT*  I will list a link to that story and why
the "Dillligent defense of IP" applies to some soft/firmware.

http://www.gnu.org/events/rms-nyu-2001-summary.txt

Which lists the history of a Xerox laser printer getting a not only
closed source driver- but one betraying the users of the printer by
being not fully obedient to a human's commands!  That literal treason
by code is what will happen every time code is kept closed. As in- you
cannot fully control that video card if you do not have full source
code.

THE LEGAL CRUFT "WRAPPERS" IS NOT ACCESS TO CODE!