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Re: legOS
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Mon, 30 Nov 1998 19:39:42 GMT
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Steve Bryan <sbryan@vendorsystems.*AvoidSpam*com>
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> Eric Hodges <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote:
> > Firmware is software. It doesn't matter if you burn software into ROM,
> > store it on EPROM, store it as PAL settings, core memory values, etc.
> > Software is software, and firmware is software.
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> Is this your opinion? Or do you have something to back this with?
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> -Kekoa
I don't think there is any question of whether this is true or false. Only
a question of whose lawyers and lobbyists have prevailed. In a similar vein
have you noticed that a game title for PlayStation is available for rent
from BlockBuster but the same title ported to (or from) the PC is not? That
is because one activity is legal and the other is not (without the consent
of the publisher which is not required for 'console' titles). Is there any
realistic difference? I don't see how there could be. So I would agree
that, logically, firmware is software but acknowledge that a (spurious)
legal distinction could be made.
Steve Bryan
Vendorsystems International
email: sbryan@vendorsystems.com
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| Firmware is software. It doesn't matter if you burn software into ROM, store it on EPROM, store it as PAL settings, core memory values, etc. Software is software, and firmware is software. (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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