On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:54 AM, m0gely <m0g...@gmail.com> wrote: > Steve D... wrote: > >> Do you want to buy from Dell, >> HP, Apple, ect. and get 0% Open Source and no chance of Open Source in >> the future, > > Explain this please.
Intel creates Customer Reference Boards (CRB) that they license to their customers, Dell, HP, ASUS, whatever. The CRB includes chip information, CAD board design, BIOS, and other software needed to be "Designed for Windows". Like this... Embedded Design Center http://edc.intel.com/Platforms/ The PC suppliers license these CRB boards and create their own design. Maybe swapping in an Nvidia video chip and a Broadcom LOM into the design. The final board design is cross-licensed and copyrighted by several companies. The design is a very company confidential piece of information. The BIOS firmware and other code is also cross-licensed and copyrighted. The final design has around a 0% chance to become Open Source. A company would need to get a sign-off from every copyright holder, for every line of code, board layer, and PCB trace. It ain't going to happen. Steve D... -- "Every perception is a gamble" Robert Anton Wilson _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
