>Every "PC" card (I suppose mac also - correct me if I'm wrong) comes  
>with its own BIOS.

True, but FLASHing with proprietary code, obtained from another product, 
is theft.

An example of such theft: taking a PC Promise UATA card and FLASHing it 
with firmware obtained from an UltraTek Mac card, which is actually the 
same Promise card, but with a few trade-secret modifications.

Promise never licensed the Mac firmware from FirmTek ... UltraTek did.

So, FLASHing the Promise-branded PC card is clearly theft of FirmTek's 
intellectual property.

Now, had Promise licensed that very same FirmTek firmware which UltraTek 
licensed, then the issue would be different.


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