Re: The i2o Bus: A Conspiracy Against Free Software? (fwd)

B. James Phillippe (bryan@Terran.ORG)
Fri, 18 Jul 1997 10:32:47 -0700 (PDT)

On Sat, 19 Jul 1997, Russell Coker - mailing lists account wrote:

> >I don't think it will be much of a problem. If they close the standard,
> >like IBM did with MCA, the standard will just die. I don't think all the
> >clone providers will want to pay for using a standard. PCI only became big
> >when they opened the standard.
>
> I think that we can just ignore I2O and let it go the way of MCA.

I hope you're right. The difference with this one is that Microsoft is
backing it. That doesn't mean assured success (look at MSN or MS Bob),
but it can make a difference.

-bp

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