On Thursday, March 20, 2014 09:08:18 AM ron minnich wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 8:36 AM, mrnuke <mr.nuke...@gmail.com> wrote: > > BTW, has any manufacturer been hostile in the past in any way relating to > > coreboot supporting hardware they would rather have kept closed/secret? > > ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haha ha ha ha ha haha ha ha ha ha > haha ha ha ha ha haha ha ha ha ha haha ha ha ha ha ha > > you're killing me. > > How about, "all of them" at one time or another. One vendor had an > internal memo stating that anyone who talked to me (my name was on it) > about LinuxBIOS would be terminated. > That seems like a slap on the wrist. Terminating employees rather than taking legal action against coreboot also suggests they might feel they have no legal standing against coreboot supporting more stuff.
I wonder if there's any legal action hardware vendors could take against ODM/OEM vendors who distribute and/or contribute to coreboot. And I don't mean BS lawsuits hw vendors know they'll lose. Alex -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot