Quoting Peter Stuge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 02:58:28PM -0400, Corey Osgood wrote:
>> I have, erm, acquired the vt8237r datasheets
>
> I would strongly like to ask everyone to refrain from using any
> knowledge gained from documents that they do not have a legal
> right to read, at least while working with LinuxBIOS.
>
> LinuxBIOS' reputation among vendors would suffer greatly from even a
> single incident if the relevant agreements were not in order with the
> vendor before acquiring documentation.
>
> This kind of mistake is even more undesired, unneccessary and uncool
> when the vendor is willing to work with us, as my impression is for
> VIA.
>
> We would only be hurting ourselves.
>
>
> Worst case scenarion:
>
> Vendor Exec: "If they can't even do it with VIA who practically give
> away their docs, why should we even give them half a chance?"
>
>
> //Peter
>
Is this why Intel is so uncooperative??

Thanks - Joe



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