Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: Flame Linus to a crisp! | Date | Thu, 24 Apr 2003 20:58:18 +0200 |
| |
On Thu 24 Apr 03 09:44, Jamie Lokier wrote: > It only gets _really_ bad when it becomes illegal to make your own > hardware :(
Actually, that's where we were a few years ago with hardware, because nearly anything anybody would want to print on a wafer was covered by patents or copyrights. It's getting better by leaps and bounds. Now, a lot of patents have expired, a lot of non-proprietary cores are available, and it's mainly the EDM tools that are non-free. That's where we coders can help.
Until the EDM tools get free, their current owners will continue to dictate what you can and can't design.
Regards,
Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |