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Re: I20 SIG - What's the big deal?

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From: Nathan J
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 00:00

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A long time ago in a galaxy (well, house at least) far far away,
lamble@silas.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr Stuart Lamble) wrote:

>Nathan J (domgrief@bigfoot.com) wrote:
>: Don't hyperventilate (yet). I know what the deal is with I20 SIG, and
>: all of their charging for system specifics. I wanted to know a bit
>
>It's worse than that. There's a non-disclosure agreement too. In other
>words, you CANNOT RELEASE SOURCE CODE without violating the NDA, but
>you cannot NOT release it without violating the GPL.
>
>-- 
>Running at a mere 104 billion instructions per second, the SX4 appears to
>be the only machine actually capable of running Office '97.
>  -- ChipChat, Australian Personal Computer, September 1997 (paraphrased.)

Love the sig =)

Anyway, thanks for the info. Couldn't be much worse, could it... of
course, they could revolutionise the kernel compilation by making it
use pre-compiled individual drivers...

Regards,
Nathan J

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From: domgrief@bigfoot.com (Nathan J)
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Date: 1997/11/25
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