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Former Nouveau driver lead joins NVIDIA and sent a massive patch set

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Former Nouveau driver lead joins NVIDIA and sent a massive patch set

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Ben Skeggs, former Nouveau lead developer and former Red Hat employee has joined NVIDIA and appears to still be working on the open source drivers.

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I worry that because he is now seeing proprietary code, he won’t be able to work so much on the open source one without introducing the possibility of a lawsuit due to it arguably no longer being a clean-room reverse-engineering

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