Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Jul 1997 09:54:27 -0500 (CDT) | From | "Patrick St. Jean" <> | Subject | I2O (hasn't this been beat to death yet?) |
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On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > The rules of the I2O sig basically lock out free operating systems. >
So ignore them. This has been beaten to death. There is NOTHING illegal about CLEAN ROOM reverse engineering. Say I sit down and document the API (and keep it up to date w/ new "changes"), and say someone else takes that API and implements stuff that works with it, there is NOTHING illegal about it as long as I don't touch the app development and they don't touch my fliggerin out what makes it tick. It's been done before. Anyone using Award, AMI, etc. BIOS? Where do you think that came from? Please people! quit whining about it, the sky is NOT falling. Let them play their silly little games, it's just because they're scared. There's ALWAYS a LEGAL way around them.
Relax, don't worry, have a homebrew!
Pat
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