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From: Ken McGlothlen <mcglk@itchy.serv.net>
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Subject: Re: IEEE 1394 Support in FreeBSD
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On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Dan O'Connor wrote:

| Somebody correct me if I am wrong, but I believe FireWire [IEEE 1394]
| requires royalty payments to implement, so I doubt you'll be seeing it in
| any free OS's in the near future...

From what I recall, that's only from hardware manufacturers, not driver
writers.




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