On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Dan Hugo wrote:
> I was just reading over the NDA agreement (for fun) that the I2O > organization (http://www.i2osig.org/) makes people sign before they > THINK about the "technology" in I2O, and I recall reading somewhere that > the Linux community was NOT in favor of the whole concept (for obvious > reasons, given the limitations of that NDA). > > I am just wondering if there is going to be a general boycott I2O > hardware (or at least ignoring the IOP and the driver model), or whether > a reverse-engineering effort is planned or in the works. Since I don't I think that it is necessary, that hardware manufacturers want sell their products to users of free OS's. I think they don't believe that this group can really play a role on the market. Maybe the OpenHardware project should be wider popularized... http://www.debian.org/OpenHardware > > It really looks like I2O is a concerted effort to keep free software and > OS's like Linux off the first tier by making driver development even > harder. As far as I know the initiator of I2O is M$... It explains everything. Wojtek Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .