Don't top post please

2017-05-08 17:23 GMT+02:00 <ronwirring@safe-mail.net>:

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From: Bill Kontos <vkontogpls@gmail.com>

> Verhaegen is one of those selected individuals who had the luxury of getting all the shit of the world thrown at their face for trying to do the right thing. He was one of the leaders in pushing amd into mainlining gpu drivers( which they have been successful to and keep working on) and got shit for that. He attempted to reverse engineer the arm mali drivers( look up lima driver) and he succeeded to some extend, then he run out of money becaue nobody was willing to help him and arm has put significant effort into destroying his life. The nda a company has to sign for getting the mali drivers requires 0 interaction with his work, therefor no company can hire him now.

"Is it common to do something like this against a person?"

No but not uncommon as well. Luc pressed were it hurts and Luc has a somewhat unfiltered personalty. Manager etc. usually have filtered personalities.

Managers also usually people with little technical insight and need to rely in information from others, the lack of information makes for easier decision making is the though here. And usually those that talk smooth are easier to listen to than those with an sound opinion, those are usually spoken loudly and don't concur with the mainstream thoughts.

ARM was afraid of lawsuits for infringement and loss of income by the details Luc might unveil on his RE quest.

This is how politics and business works.