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Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 18:01:42 +0100
From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@uni-koblenz.de>
To: "Mohammad A. Haque" <mhaque@haque.net>
Cc: Graham Murray <graham@webwayone.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Microsoft begining to open source Windows 2000?
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On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 08:26:36AM -0500, Mohammad A. Haque wrote:

> Hmm. I guess you have something there. I come from a Mac background and
> some patches I've seen to 'hack' a feature into one of Apple's drivers
> has been one that modifies the resource fork of the driver file. The
> person who made this mod of course didn't have access to the source
> code.

Maybe they can be applied that way but no sane engineer would ever develop
a patch without source if possible at all.

  Ralf
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