From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Nov 12 02:13:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA20100 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 02:13:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bamboo.ints.ml.org ([194.72.37.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA20094 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 02:13:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stuart@ints.ml.org) Received: (from stuart@localhost) by bamboo.ints.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA19016 for chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 10:14:52 GMT (envelope-from stuart) Message-ID: <19981112101452.A19012@helan.org> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 10:14:52 +0000 From: Stuart Henderson To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: TBTF: I2O freed Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Just spotted this at tbtf.com: 12 November 98: I2O SIG frees its spec On 4 November The I2O Special Interest Group announced [1] that it was making the I2O specification, version 1.5, publicly available to all product developers at no cost. This announcement lays to rest year-old fears [2] that the I2O Consortium might use its closed mem- bership roster and non-disclosure terms to hobble Linux implementa- tion of the advanced I/O subsystem. Here is discussion of this de- velopment on Slashdot [3]. [1] http://www.newsalert.com/free/story?StoryId=CnJ_FubKbytaWndm [2] http://tbtf.com/archive/08-04-97.html#s04 [3] http://slashdot.org/articles/98/11/04/1123235.shtml To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message