Arch Linux Enables Mesa Floating Point Textures

[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?

[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.

[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?

[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.

[yesterday]

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

[yoshi314]

arch is one of distros that don't really care about patents, and sometimes about software licenses.

i remember the licence issue problem with faac 2.5 (gpl incompatibility). gentoo refused to package it, arch did. licence was finally fixed around 2.7 or so.

[calim]

Slideshow

Hey, 30 fps isn't a slideshow, at least not for my eyes.
I admit that's with a GTX470 with cheated clocks though.

[markg85]

You didn't even mention me! Oh well... People please do note that this is currently only enabled in the git version!! This flag is not yet (?) added to the build version since 7.11 isn't out yet so I would keep some caution in mind.

It's a nice start though!

[curaga]

@oibaf

Seriously, stop spamming in other threads than yours.

[droidhacker]

The distro is based in Canada - according to Distrowatch anyway

Does any one know if they could be subject to law suits?

Yep. Sure could be.