<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Erm... I'm wondering... why does the S3TC issue come up every few<br>
months out of it's grave and haunt the list (and your nerves) ?<br>
<div class="im HOEnZb"><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think it is because the issue looks deceptively simple. Hardware is hardware, right? ASICs do the decompression, not software. Surely blindly copying bits from one device to another <i>can't</i> be patent infringement. Surely, right? :\</div>
<div><br></div><div>Patrick</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>