Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Jul 1997 22:46:50 +1000 | From | Marcus B <> | Subject | Re: The i2o Bus: A Conspiracy Against Free Software? (fwd) |
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It seems that there would be no easy way Free software could get in on this without a company having to charge (or something similar) for the product, however, in the licensing agreement says that each member has the right to create their own standards, and micros&^%* is very popular for doing that, and if my interpretation of the law is correct it is very possible to reverse engineer such a thing, they have provided enough information on their pages, and the hardware has to released some day! Dr. Dobbs published a reverse engineered 4 Mb paging for the Pentium chips and I don't remember them getting a slap over the wrists for that. So basically _if_ this isn't stuffed up by a renegade company and it _does_ become standard, Linux may only be one step behind, at the most. -- /------------------------------\ | MABS -=marcus@cwi.net.au=- | | | | #define *null (bank_account) | \------------------------------/
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