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Re: legOS
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 30 Nov 1998 20:05:44 GMT
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Paul Speed <pspeed@augustschell!saynotospam!.com>
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Just curious, and since you seem to have some information
handy, where is the line between firmware and microcode drawn? Or
is microcode also considered firmware?
-Paul
Eric Hodges wrote:
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> It's the law. Software isn't defined by the media it's stored in or the
> way it is stored. It doesn't make any legal difference if you distribute
> the software on a CD or printed on the back of a T-shirt. The copyright
> laws consider software to be any "set of statements or instructions to be
> used directly or indirectly in a computer in order to bring about a certain
> result."( 17 U.S.C ? 101) Software distributed on ROM, EPROM, EEPROM, etc.
> is still covered by the copyright laws.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kekoa Proudfoot [SMTP:lugnet.robotics@lugnet.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 30, 1998 11:26 AM
> To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com
> Subject: Re: legOS
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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.
>
> Is this your opinion? Or do you have something to back this with?
>
> -Kekoa
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| (...) I'm not going to touch the legal issues being talked about, but let me try to address the technical ones. A micro-processor (CPU) is composed of a bunch of registers, adders, buffers, memory I/O locations, etc. In order for anything to take (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| It's the law. Software isn't defined by the media it's stored in or the way it is stored. It doesn't make any legal difference if you distribute the software on a CD or printed on the back of a T-shirt. The copyright laws consider software to be any (...) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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