Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 1 May 1996 09:13:15 +0100 (BST) | From | Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <> | Subject | Re: Must modules be GPL'ed? |
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On Tue, 30 Apr 1996, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, Daniel A. Taylor wrote: > > > Reason #5; > > Really clever software. The company does software interface tricks > > to get more out of the hardware that are non-intuitive. I believe > > that this is the reason most companies actually have for driver NDA's. > > After all, _anyone_ can count chips, but how exactly do you write > > a stereoscopic, rectilinear, sonic-screwdriver driver? > > hey. please tell me WHAT software you are referring to. You mean the > BIOS or the DOS drivers to get performance out of the hardware to feed a > ... hmmm ... a DOS FAT filesystem? (crying) > > -- mingo
Hmm, obviously never seen Dr. Who .... Bryn -- PGP key pass phrase forgotten, \ Overload -- core meltdown sequence again :( | initiated. / This space is intentionally left | blank, apart from this text ;-) \____________________________________
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