Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964839AbVLNQfq (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 11:35:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964843AbVLNQfq (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 11:35:46 -0500 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:31416 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964839AbVLNQfp (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 11:35:45 -0500 To: "linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)" Cc: "Brian Gerst" , "Arjan van de Ven" , "M." , "Andrea Arcangeli" , "William Lee Irwin III" , Subject: Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario References: <1133779953.9356.9.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20051205121851.GC2838@holomorphy.com> <20051206011844.GO28539@opteron.random> <43944F42.2070207@didntduck.org> <20051206030828.GA823@opteron.random> <1133869465.4836.11.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <4394ECA7.80808@didntduck.org> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:33:41 -0700 In-Reply-To: (linux-os@analogic.com's message of "Tue, 6 Dec 2005 09:09:11 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 594 Lines: 15 "linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)" writes: > When the linux-BIOS group started, few knew where to start. Then, > mysteriously, there was a complete directory tree of a well-known > BIOS that appeared on the web. That was a start. Nope it wasn't. None of the developers even read the code. We needed to keep our hands clean. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/