From: Sengan Baring-Gould <sengan@seqnet.net>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 17:36:50 -0600

Re: NVidia is a horseshit company

James A Simmons wrote:

> > I personally think that keeping this information secure is kinda stupid,
> > considering that there is so little information you can gather about how
> > a chipset works on an internal level by the register lists- even 3dfx I
> > can see why they would want to protect this (to prevent a third party
> > from coming along and making something register-compatible so that they
> > can use Glide) but since NVidia is only using D3D and OpenGL and other
> > high level, licensable APIs, this isn't an issue.

Actually... that can be sued. Can't provide details though. It's to do with
trademarking
of names.

Sengan