Messages in this thread | | | From | Darren Reed <> | Subject | I20 to cause problems for linux et al. (fwd) | Date | Mon, 15 Sep 1997 21:57:48 +1000 (EST) |
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[ From a friend...]
> i've been reading disturbing news that Intel's and Micro$oft's new PC Bus inititative > (Called I2O) has developer documentation which is available only with the payment > of hefty licence fees. Furthermore, developers have to promise not to release any > information on this interface, nor any source code for any drivers that they develop > fot I2O. Even if you can get information to write drivers, > you will be banned from distributing those drivers. This will wreak havoc on > free OSs like linux and freeBSD. > more information from: www.i2osig.org
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