Given one reason gpu manufacturers use for keeping drivers closed is to avoid patent cases/trolls, can prosecution lawyers use leaked IP as a basis for a patent case?
Would that then lead to a counter-suit for illegal ip access?
"Given one reason gpu manufacturers use for keeping drivers closed is to avoid patent cases/trolls,"
No, this is what they state. IT is of course, not in any way accurate.
Having access to source code does nothing for patent trolls, or anyone else.
They don't go scouring source code and then suing people.
They go suing people and then scouring source code.
Since they'd get source code access in discovery anyway, it doesn't matter whether they publish or not.
It's really that they think they have magic secret sauce.
In particular I'm thinking of the current nvidia/Samsung/Qualcomm debacle (http://www.anandtech.com/show/8715/samsung-nvidia-counter-su...)