On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, John Hasler wrote: > Don Armstrong writes: > > I'm not sure at all what the firmware being a RTOS has to do with it's > > distributability. > > The hardware vendor may have licensed the RTOS from a company which > is in the RTOS business and is therefor very unlikely to free the > source. Yes, but that's a case where the firmware contains code that isn't wholly owned by the manufacturer and not unique to RTOS based firmware... > This is likely to be a continuing problem: licensing "IP" under > _extremely_ restrictive conditions is routine in the hardware > business. Yes... it seems to be one which we have to fight against quite often, unfortunatly. Don Armstrong -- I never until now realized that the primary job of any emoticon is to say "excuse me, that didn't make any sense." ;-P -- Cory Doctorow http://www.donarmstrong.com http://www.anylevel.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
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