G'day Bruce. Thought you might be interested to know,
there was an article in the Australian Personal Computer magazine
("Australia's top selling computer magazine") this month about I2O.
Linux was said to be the main victim, since there was no way Linux
could participate in the organisation.
"The most likely victim of this 'commercialised standard' would be
the many flavours of Linux, the public domain, freeware operating system
based on Unix...."
"Some industry groups are already concerned about this aspect
of the I2O project. `I suspect that if I2O peripherals become popular,
free operating systems will be locked out from running on PC hardware,'
Bruce Perens, president of the non-profit Software In The Public Interest
group (which promotes the development of Linux), wrote in a newsgroup
posting earlier this year. 'It's a closed standard, it requires a NDA, and
you need a license to develop software for it.'"
This keyboard is too awful to type any more, sorry.
Hamish
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