Thread: RE: [oss4lib-discuss] open source bios
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From: Matthew J. D. <mat...@ou...> - 2004-06-02 08:16:36
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> The following Tiny URL should point to a news blurb=20 > describing the possibility of an open source BIOS by Intel: >=20 > http://tinyurl.com/3ahe7 >=20 > Cool. Open source firmware. In computer architecture class in=20 > 1989 I learned that software is just like hardware and=20 > hardware is just like software. Open source hardware, really cool. IBM published the 8086 source code for the original BIOS in the first PC's in the technical reference manual, although at that time BIOS's were in ROM so not easily modified. Interestingly enough NetGear publish the source code for the firmware of their 836G wireless/firewall/router under GPL on their website. Matthew |
From: Matthew J. D. <mat...@ou...> - 2004-06-02 08:18:38
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> Heh. In my computer architecture class a few years later we=20 > learned that it's all Boolean algebra, part of the formal=20 > logic branch of philosophy.=20 > So... computers are just like philsophy and philosophy is=20 > just like computers. :) Oddly enoughy I'm just off to a conference on that topic - http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/courses/progra2.html Matthew |
From: Eric L. M. <em...@nd...> - 2004-06-02 11:51:28
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On Jun 2, 2004, at 3:18 AM, Matthew J. Dovey wrote: >> Heh. In my computer architecture class a few years later we >> learned that it's all Boolean algebra, part of the formal >> logic branch of philosophy. >> So... computers are just like philsophy and philosophy is >> just like computers. :) > > Oddly enoughy I'm just off to a conference on that topic - > http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/courses/progra2.html I went to this conference a few years ago, but it was in Pittsburgh. See: http://infomotions.com/travel/cap/ BTW, the link above became popular enough with its photographs that when you search Google Images for "dinosaur" one of the pictures show up on the first page of hits: http://tinyurl.com/2stuq -- Eric Lease Morgan |
From: Matthew J. D. <mat...@ou...> - 2004-06-03 19:36:04
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> > IBM published the 8086 source code for the original BIOS in=20 > the first > > PC's in the technical reference manual, although at that time BIOS's > > were in ROM so not easily modified. >=20 > Note that publishing source code does not necessarily make it Open=20 > Source any more than publishing a journal makes it Open Access. The=20 > copyright holder has to give certain rights as well. Yes, I was careful not to say "published as open source"! I'm not too sure under what license/rights IBM published the original BIOS (anyone?), although I suspect many of the IBM clones (and even todays BIOSes) took advantage of the publication of the original BIOS. Matthew |
From: Joshua D. F. <joshuadf@u.washington.edu> - 2004-06-02 16:55:27
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Matthew J. Dovey wrote: >>The following Tiny URL should point to a news blurb >>describing the possibility of an open source BIOS by Intel: >> >> http://tinyurl.com/3ahe7 >> >>Cool. Open source firmware. In computer architecture class in >>1989 I learned that software is just like hardware and >>hardware is just like software. Open source hardware, really cool. > > IBM published the 8086 source code for the original BIOS in the first > PC's in the technical reference manual, although at that time BIOS's > were in ROM so not easily modified. Note that publishing source code does not necessarily make it Open Source any more than publishing a journal makes it Open Access. The copyright holder has to give certain rights as well. |