> However, lawyers are thick on the ground in the US, especially now that
> they've left Florida. I am sure that someone would find a reason to sue
> you for copying that bios. You're allowed to use it to start the machine,
> but that's about it. Copying it will get you in trouble, even for just
> your own use.
Time to move the linuxbios lanl server to an island that doesn't understand
digital millennium copyright acts ;-) hehehe .. don't you guys have an oil rigg
that is its own sovreign nation .. something to do with some 70's hippy thing ...
saw it on Fox ... they run an internet connection with servers at $$$ ... floats off
the US coast somewhere .. sounds perfect.
Hmm ... aren't we still using it to boot the machine? Even if it is a "copy" its still
only being used once ... I didn't sign anything when I bought my board, which
means its limited to common law ... the DeCSS guys were eventually nailed on
copyright issues, in this country ... so reverse engineering isn't a problem, but
public redistribution is ... hmmm .. then there's the question of whether a pre-
determined sequence of instructions could be claimed as copyrightable by the
BIOS manufacturer/developer .. which leaves only a non-existant NDA between
you and the chipset guys ... hmm ... maybe another copyright sting there .. but
then I also bought the rights to use the system board with no explicit agreement
to use only via said BIOS software ...
Bah ... VIA's problem ... SiS is a much better way to go .. comes out cheaper too ...
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