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Re: legOS
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 27 Nov 1998 21:47:59 GMT
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Dave wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Nov 1998 10:49:11 -0800 (PST), Kekoa Proudfoot wrote:
> > Plug-Ins fall into that category, but as far as I'm concerned, firmware
> > is firmware, software is software, and firmware is not software.
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> Firmware isn't software??? Go way back when and see what happend to bring
> about the IBM PC clone. The BIOS reverse engineering and why MACs haven't
> been cloned.
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> Firmware *is* software, placed in a chip instead of 'normal' media
You're drifting from the point. Why IBM PCs have been cloned and why MACs
have not been has nothing to do with license agreements. Copyrights are
copyrights. I cannot, will not, and have not copied the firmware in any
way that I do not consider fair use. But copyrights are not license
agreements.
Also, perhaps I should have worded things differently:
As far as it's possible to (perhaps incorrectly) read the license
agreement, firmware is firmware, software is software, and firmware is not
software.
It certainly is not clear; that was my point.
-Kekoa
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| (...) It doesn't have much to do with coprights, IMO, either - the simple reason is that no two Macs are the same, whereas PCs have retained the same daft architecture IBM thought of on day one (including overlapping interrupts and exceptions which (...) (26 years ago, 27-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Firmware isn't software??? Go way back when and see what happend to bring about the IBM PC clone. The BIOS reverse engineering and why MACs haven't been cloned. Firmware *is* software, placed in a chip instead of 'normal' media (26 years ago, 26-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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