Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 14:59:05 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: "Charles M. Hannum" <mycroft@ai.mit.edu> Cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: SVNET Meeting? Message-ID: <199503202259.OAA01744@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 18 Mar 1995 09:19:31 EST." <199503181419.JAA22722@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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> >I feel compelled to add something here... > > The first words from his mouth were anti Adaptec. Now I'm not the > greatest Adaptec fan, but I don't like their policy blown into > something it isn't. He basically said that they would not give enough > information out to program the cards without an NDA. > >That (mis)information originated from Julian Elischer. Julian said >many moons ago that Adaptec's policy was such, and for a long time it >was touted as the reason for not having a 2x42 driver. You can find >this in your own mail archives. > >(I thought I'd corrected that long ago, but it appears not.) The one thing I didn't understand was that it sounded like J.T. new about our driver since as soon as I said something about it, he remarked, "but your sequencer code is still GPL'd". Anyway, so long as everyone who reads this thread understands the current Adaptec policy, I'm happy. -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================
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