Arch Linux Enables Mesa Floating Point Textures

[yoshi314]

Well Arch is volunteer run and and pretty much a hobby distro.

The chances of them being targeted by a law suit are pretty minimal. There is no benefit gained in suing Arch Linux

i suppose that as long as it's not for-profit it can stay safe.

[V!NCENT]

Someone should realy buy that patent from that stupid company (not a license). Can't IBM just step in and be like trololololol company bought, everybody fired...

They spend... what?... one billion a year on Linux? Can't a couple of mils be used to trash those trolls?

[yesterday]

Someone should realy buy that patent from that stupid company (not a license). Can't IBM just step in and be like trololololol company bought, everybody fired...

They spend... what?... one billion a year on Linux? Can't a couple of mils be used to trash those trolls?

IBM couldn't care less about desktop issues. The patent has no value to them.

[asdx]

Someone should realy buy that patent from that stupid company (not a license). Can't IBM just step in and be like trololololol company bought, everybody fired...

They spend... what?... one billion a year on Linux? Can't a couple of mils be used to trash those trolls?

That would be really nice. +1

[asdx]

IBM couldn't care less about desktop issues. The patent has no value to them.

Maybe Canonical then? Red Hat?

[liam]

Maybe Canonical then? Red Hat?

I don't think you can buy a company purely with marketing-Fu.
Who owns the patent in question?