On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 09:06:57AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 11:53:49PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > > Scripsit Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > Worse case scenario, this could be clean-room reimplemented. > > > > Before doing that, somebody ought to approach Apple and ask explicit > > permission to reverse-engineer the boot-block code and distribute the > > reverse-engineered source under a free license. > > > > The worst that can happen is that the request ends up with some > > clueless corporate lawyer whose instinctive reaction is, "No way; > > that's *our* IP" - but if he has the slightest bit of clue he will > > realise that Apple does not really have any commercial interest in > > clinging to this particular piece of IP. > > some 50 or so m68k assembly instruction to call rom functions on obsolet > and not supported anymore hardware, i seriously doubt even the > cluelesslest corporate lawyer will have a problem with that. But stay > tuned, something interesting may come out of this discussion, and thanks > to Henning Makholm for providing the link to the boot sector docs at > apple, altough it needs to be taken with a grain of salt, as it seems to > contradict itself in many places.
Err, thanks to you that is, didn't notice it was you posting :) Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
