Hacker News Reader

Can AMD fork HDMI, add in driver support, and call it their own standard that just so happens to be compatible with HDMI?

I'm sure they wouldn't make such a move lightly, but is there something fundamental here about the laws or specifications that prevents them from doing this?

View on HN

I think they could, simply by IP laws, but they have a contract with the HDMI Forum that probably doesn't allow that. They could cancel it (and reverse-engineer HDMI instead of going by the NDA'd spec), but I don't think they'd do that just for Linux support.

Might be a patent mine field?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com