That reminds me, I watched a Netflix documentary last night about Compaq. Basically the story behind Halt and Catch Fire. Well worth seeing. Silicon Cowboys I think.
I was trying to explain to my wife about the team that saw the bios source code and how they could not pollute the other guys working on software to keep a clean separation of copy infringment potentiality. Does anyone remember the court case where one team was segregated and saw the IP and wrote a spec that another team used to create new software. Seems to me it was Lotus v Twin, but it could have been Phoenix Bios v IBM. I really think it was BIOS related. BIOS was so easy to copy back in the day. From: Ken Hohhof Sent: Monday, October 28, 2024 8:37 AM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Subject: Re: [AFMUG] VM ware Broadcom has a strange history. I remember in the late 1990s attending ANSI standards meetings with “the 2 Henrys” who founded Broadcom. Back then, they were just regular guys, not billionaires. My recollection is one of them, I think Henry Nicholas, was at PairGain and developed an in-house fabless semiconductor design organization with innovative tools that could basically compile a modem chip from a list of specs. Today we would probably call it AI. He wanted PairGain to go into the chip design business and sell services to other customers but they didn’t want to do that, so he and his mentor from UCLA formed their own company. Looks like the company is owned by a bunch of private equity companies today. All they see is dollar signs. As somebody already pointed out, if they are screwing over their giant customers, the little guys have no chance. From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Josh Luthman Sent: Monday, October 28, 2024 7:35 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] VM ware I've seen most people run over to Proxmox. AT&T just got a temporary restraining order out of the court to keep Broadcom from screwing them short term. On Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 9:30 PM Chuck <ch...@go-mtc.com> wrote: Broadcom does not recognize our perpetual license. Anyone have a solution? Proxmox. Xen. Really like to not have to do this. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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