Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964872AbVLNRB5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:01:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964875AbVLNRB5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:01:57 -0500 Received: from odyssey.analogic.com ([204.178.40.5]:54281 "EHLO odyssey.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964872AbVLNRB4 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:01:56 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 In-Reply-To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Dec 2005 17:01:51.0116 (UTC) FILETIME=[13BF9CC0:01C600D0] Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:01:49 -0500 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario Thread-Index: AcYA0BPJALhGzBcoQfqZZA9aSaZbyQ== 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: "linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)" To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: "Brian Gerst" , "Arjan van de Ven" , "M." , "Andrea Arcangeli" , "William Lee Irwin III" , "Linux kernel" Reply-To: "linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1418 Lines: 32 On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > "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 > Standard disclaimer #123 Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.6.13.4 on an i686 machine (5589.56 BogoMips). Warning : 98.36% of all statistics are fiction. . **************************************************************** The information transmitted in this message is confidential and may be privileged. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify Analogic Corporation immediately - by replying to this message or by sending an email to DeliveryErrors@analogic.com - and destroy all copies of this information, including any attachments, without reading or disclosing them. Thank you. - 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/