On propriatary hardware and the origins of Linux (was: IBM Buys Rational...)

[Paul Iadonisi]

On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 18:20, bscott at ntisys.com wrote:

[stuff about firmware coupling with OSes snipped]

  Points taken.

>   Be careful what you wish for.  You may get it.  :-)

  Well, at least we have (as mentioned in one of my posts) linuxbios
working more hardware all the time.  Although, I am not speaking from
experience, as I haven't had a chance to play with one these boxes yet. 
Anybody on this list seen it in action?

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