Re: Flashing is legal

[mkauspe]

Prior to this i didn't know it was illegal. It doesn't make me want to 
stop either to be honest. Do you know of any good places to find some 
articles on how to accomplish this feat? I have a Promise 66 ready and 
waiting. It was going in the garbage until I saved it because this 
possibility, so that justifies it right? Haha. Thanks for any "help",

Mike (aka PC Tech)
Computer/Networking Support Technician
AAHS, CO, Academy School District 20
"Don't trust anyone below 10,000 feet" -Me Dad

On Sunday, October 19, 2003, at 01:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

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.


Mike (aka PC Tech)
Computer/Networking Support Technician
AAHS, CO, Academy School District 20
"Don't trust anyone below 10,000 feet" -Me Dad

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