James Carlson wrote: > Tom Haynes writes: > > Are there any legal ramifications in open sourcing the le(7D) driver? [snip] > - whether the code itself was based on either code or information > (such as hardware manufacturer documentation) that is itself > encumbered. > > As well as potentially other things, such as the people who worked on > it, depending on the situation. It's no small matter, and the older > the code in question, the more difficult the effort. (And the deader > the hardware, the less reason to bother spending Sun's money that way. > 10Mb-only Ethernet? Who cares?)
At least I and many other students would care since Ultra1 machines are still very widespread and they've become quite cheap (at least we have around 50-60 rotting in the cellar and I guess most german universities have similar stockpiles around). Problem is that OpenSolaris no longer supports this kind of machine which more or less ruines this opportunity to get more developers to work with OpenSolaris on SPARC machines... ;-( ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
