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Date:      Sun, 25 Jun 2000 14:56:38 -0700
From:      "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To:        Ken McGlothlen <mcglk@itchy.serv.net>
Cc:        "Dan O'Connor" <dan@mostgraveconcern.com>, Richard Vanderbilt <richvan@bitstorm.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IEEE 1394 Support in FreeBSD 
Message-ID:  <200006252156.e5PLucn06333@ptavv.es.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 25 Jun 2000 11:25:19 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.02.10006251124190.82403-100000@itchy.serv.net> 

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> Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 11:25:19 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Ken McGlothlen <mcglk@itchy.serv.net>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> 
> 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.

And, even from hardware producers it's included in the price of the
FireWire chips, so there is no special payment required. (Unless you
plan on building chips!)

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634


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