What financial damage does the Linux driver cause to Synaptics, if the hardware can only be made by them, and the driver increases the number of devices where that hardware is usable?

Also, if the concern is that he would be educating the competitors, that is what the patent is supposed to do, describe the invention. And in any case, the developer could, instead of a driver, write a book describing how SystemLink works and that would not violate any patent.

Control of the whole chain vs not control of the whole chain.

That is an abstract concept, value and goal, and it is reasonable for management to want to not suddenly loose it.

You enter a completely different problem landscape once you leave that, so you'd of course fight back.

This fighting back has cost, of course. Like this negative PR right here. But it might still be worth it.

Someone probably made the mental calculus that led us here

See the recent Dan Gelbart video on patents [1]. He explains how litigation works how to sue and how to defend.

[1] https://youtu.be/v5d8nwgiSYI

My mother also complains that I do not reply faster. My response is that I want to be in the here and now. With cellphones people are constantly elsewhere and I don't think the human brain is made for that, nor to monitor dozens of little pieces of information.

Many parents are self-monitoring their own sleep with smart watches, their jogging routine, nutrient intake, etc, etc. Knowing everything their kids do at the daycare is just a natural next step.

Unless it's a very specific hardware, most Linux distros will boot up fine from the same disk image on different machines or even inside a VM.

I though the same, reverse engineer with AI. Even run the AI on the laptop and have it reverse-engineer itself.

Won't the nvidia hardware reject open source firmware replacements? They probably only execute code signed by nvidia.

You don't need to replace the firmware; just send it the same commands that Windows sends.

Open AI and Anthropic have already begun restricting reverse engineering with their models.

It's the same in Spanish-speaking countries: "José María", "Luis María", etc. And the other way around too, women name "María José". Regarding the last one, there are many women named "María " who go around by their second name "", as María is way too common.

I had a copy of "Differential and Integral Calculus" by Piskunov that belonged to my father. The prologue said it was used in the curricula of technical schools in the USSR. I used to think about that fact a lot and tried to imagine what those Soviet technical schools would be like. There was a lot of content there that I did not see in any of the seven math courses we had at uni.

One of my teachers said the only job for her was factory book keeper in some nasty factory. She came over to the US in the 90s and became a CPA then taught college level accounting.

She said a lot of people she immigrated with were overqualified for the jobs in Russia (factory book keeper or technician with PhD level knowledge). The same applied to the US but there were many more options than factory jobs. Her husband was on the technical track and found a job as a professor somewhere.

was it a good book? how did it compare to a typical modern decent quality american book

The only way out would be to either pass a law that makes chat control illegal (which is not going to happen) or for chat control to pass and be struck down by the courts.

Even if it is struck down by the courts it could take years for that to happen. Last time it happened with another privacy invading law, I think it took something 7 or 8 years before it was repealed.

BYD trucks haven't won a war yet, so at least in that segment Toyota is safe for now.

Chinese pickups are going quite great in Australia. Byd/GWM/Jaq combined are outselling Toyota in the market where they didnt exist last year https://equifund.com.au/blog/top-selling-utes-australia-2026

I'm guessing they could, in theory, attack open source projects, but it would not be very effective as those could be infinitely forked. That's the reason why governments will actually support an encourage an oligopoly of proprietary platforms via regulations (e.g. mandatory automated scanning) which only companies can practically comply with.