demalion said:
To be brief, I'll post one example of what disturbed me:
on the second to last page said:
We also have some information which holds that ATi is keeping a list of all of NVIDIA's "sins." Apparently, ATi is happily distributing this list among the press. So don't be surprised to find some sensationalist stories of the "NVIDIA's Dirty Tactics Revealed!" variety in the near future. Probably, the race is already on behind the scenes to see who publishes the next story first... That's not to say that NVIDIA doesn't keep a similar list. At present, the company is not planning to publish it, though, since such mud-slinging battles tend to end up damaging the entire industry.
I agree. Why would anyone think the source of the information was relevant?
Reviewing the facts: what ATi discovered it did not publish. Instead, ATi turned over what it found to web sites which then independently were able to exactly duplicate those results themselves. The web sites then published their information--not because ATi revealed it--but because they were able to independently verify ATi's own internal findings.
Lars apparently has completely (deliberately?) missed the point that ATi's initial discovery of these facts is not germane to what nVidia did in its Detonators relative to 3DMk03. It's what nVidia did that is the meat of the story--who initially discovered what nVidia did is irrelevant.
But what nVidia did in the Detonators only fit a very obvious pattern of behavior: first they quit the FM program, then they publicly disparaged the benchmark, and finally they grossly cheated it. ATi has virtually nothing to do with the real story here. (But there is an interesting sidebar here that had ATi ever believed itself guilty of the same thing nVidia did it would never have revealed such information about nVidia--and thus itself--to anybody. The story as to why what ATi did wasn't a cheat while nVidia's coding was is one not fully developed by anybody yet that I can see.)
Then there are also nVidia's multiple responses to being caught:
(1) It's a driver bug
(2) FM is deliberately attacking us unfairly
(3) They were legitimate application optimizations
How Lars might ever surmise that the source of the information was of more importance than the information itself is baffling. One can only view this statement as an attempt to paint both companies with the same brush when what they did was very, very different. I also got a good laugh at his fabrication of "nVidia's little black book" which nVidia is (out of a sense of renewed integrity after being caught cheating and lying to cover up) deliberately choosing not to reveal. Heh...
that was pretty funny...
It's like a guy standing before a judge about to sentence him to the gallows and saying something pithy like, "You know judge, I know you are going to sentence me to die in a moment, but I just want you to know this: I've got the goods on you--yessiree, Bob! But I'm such a decent fellow I'm not going to spill the beans. You should thank me for that!" *chuckle* I doubt that would win him points...
Why do people fabricate such nonsense?
I would go to [H]ard and ask myself but I don't feel like getting banned. 
