Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
d) There are so many patents issued for obvious techniques used in
computer peripheral chips that releasing documentation might tempt
an ethically challenged company to sue them for royalties.
Intel has been on record as stating that patent issues are now a
significant problem for them.
Funny how that doesn't seem to be an issue for many other companies
making similar products, at least not to the extent of preventing them
from releasing documentation.
Also, this does not really matter for firmware redistribution.
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Lars Hansson
