I2O (hasn't this been beat to death yet?)

Patrick St. Jean (psj@cgmlarson.com)
Tue, 22 Jul 1997 09:54:27 -0500 (CDT)

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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