From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 20 14:59:24 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA12396 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 14:59:24 -0800 Received: from estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.42.147]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA12390 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 14:59:23 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA01744; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 14:59:05 -0800 Message-Id: <199503202259.OAA01744@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: estienne.cs.berkeley.edu: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: "Charles M. Hannum" cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: SVNET Meeting? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 18 Mar 1995 09:19:31 EST." <199503181419.JAA22722@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 14:59:05 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >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 ==============================================