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 >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i686) >X-Accept-Language: en >Mime-Version: 1.0 >To: openbios@wesley.informatik.uni-freiburg.de >Subject: [OpenBIOS] OpenBIOS status >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Sender: owner-openbios@elvis.informatik.uni-freiburg.de >Precedence: bulk >Reply-To: openbios@elvis.informatik.uni-freiburg.de > >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 >- >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@freiburg.linux.de >with "unsubscribe openbios" in the body of the message > >----- End forwarded message ----- > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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