Re: Everyone's SRM woes

[alvin <alvin iplink net>]

Mike Foley wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: alvin [mailto:alvin@iplink.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 9:48 AM
> > To: axp-list@redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: Everyone's SRM woes
> >
> > I have no hard information. As I said it looks like you are working on
> > somthing new. This is my impression from my view as an
> > outsider. I have
> > been in the hardware/software industry for over 20 years now and have
> > developed a "nose" for things like this. It is not allways correct but
> > is more often than not. YOu could of course state that I am
> > catagoricly wrong and I have no problem with that.
> 
>         Oh good. Then I can say you are categorically wrong. :)
> 
>         It won't be "proprietary". As I mentioned in my email
>         to the AXP list on Monday the 13th, much of API's work
>         on "Linux in the ROM" will be Open Sourced. I don't
>         know how much less "proprietary" you can get than that,
>         do you?

I will only believe it when I see it.

There are also a few key words in your statement "most" and "will be".
This leaves an undetermined amount not Open and no time when the source
will be available. Why is it not open source yet?

In this case I am more than happy to be proven wrong.

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