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Date:      Wed, 19 May 1999 09:36:19 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Free VMWare and open BIOS!
Message-ID:  <4.2.0.37.19990519093547.04100900@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <19990519162252.B66788@bitbox.follo.net>

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Yet another project whose code is unthinkingly GPLed.

--Brett Glass

At 04:22 PM 5/19/99 +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote:
>Yay!
>
>----- Forwarded message from "Kevin P. Lawton" <bochs@world.std.com> -----
>
>Message-Id: <3740C3C3.91FDCEAA@world.std.com>
>Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 01:34:59 +0000
>From: "Kevin P. Lawton" <bochs@world.std.com>
>Organization: Bochs Software Company
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>To: openbios@wesley.informatik.uni-freiburg.de
>Subject: [OpenBIOS] OpenBIOS status
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>
>Hey OpenBIOS team,
>
>Can you folks me a quick snapshot of how things
>are working out with OpenBIOS?
>
>You probably have at least heard of my project "bochs".
>A long time ago someone from the OpenBIOS project contacted
>me, and wanted to know if they could use my BIOS
>as a starting point or reference for OpenBIOS.
>
>Anyhow, I've started another project, more or less an
>open source clone of the commercial program "VMWare".
>You can check it out at:
>
>   news://news.redhat.com/redhat.projects.freemware
>   http://www.freemware.org
>
>We're going to be needing an open source BIOS for
>that project.  I have no problem with using the BIOS
>from bochs as a starting point, but I thought I'd
>contact you folks and see if it makes sense to sync
>up with your efforts.
>
>Freemware has potential to be a *really* big Linux
>project, and thus receive a ton of support.  So this
>may very well help out your project.
>
>Thanks,
>-Kevin Lawton
>http://www.bochs.com
>-
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