On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 06:05:12PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 07:53:46PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > designed for anything but bootable CD's and floppies. its useless for > > bootable CDs since it requires non-free, non-distributable Apple CDROM > > drivers. > > > Do we have anyone that could convince Apple to open this part of their old > machines?
you mean OpenFirmware? no. it contains code which does not belong to apple. apparently newworld OF is more clear of such things but i still think there is not a snowballs chance in hell that Apple will release the source to OpenFirmware on any of thier machines as Free Software. (they have released nothing under a Free licence). someone on irc has found a way to extract and decompress the OF bootrom, decompress it, and decompile it. perhaps we can reverse engineer it enough to find the flaws and proper solutions. > They obviously don't have any interest in them anymore, since OSX isn't > supporting them.... they are interested in seeing them tossed into the nearest landfill so that they may be replaced with nice new expensive G4s. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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