[libv]

First off, that problem already exists in the hardware, the damage is already done (as i stated in my blog entry http://libv.livejournal.com/26635.html under "the patent excuse").

There was another big smoking gun recently, at linaros conference in budapest. Here finally some truth was spoken at 9:40 into the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPjSm_98rgo&t=580s

Like IMG, ARM is not selling just the hardware design, it is also selling driver development services. When the driver is open source, and competitive, everyone can sell such services, and there's a lot less of those services to sell. ARM has revenue depending on this.

This is one good thing about the IMG revenue coming from Apple, it was mostly licensing costs, not services. If IMG had been selling services on top, their revenue would've been reduced by 75%+ instead of "just" ~50%.