Re: On EOMA-68 patent licensing...

2013-11-24 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 3:35 AM, Yuhong Bao wrote: > I read this: http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3102545&cid=41270883 > Makes me wonder what would happen if something similar was tried with EFI or > ACPI? the EOMA68 project is unique in that it is a mass-volume *modular* architect

On EOMA-68 patent licensing...

2013-11-23 Thread Yuhong Bao
I read this: http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3102545&cid=41270883 "to explain: the patents are there to protect people from physical harm due to the possibility of idiotic companies creating non-interoperable products that could potentially short-circuit things e.g. a lithium battery