On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 06:22 -0700, BRUCE STANLEY wrote: > The point is, why should a hardware vendor give it's competitor an > out right free lunch. Neither licensing, nor closed-source, actually prevents a competitor from making some sort of use of someone else's work. All that a hardware vendor does by being pig-headed is reduce the number of their customers. The ones who might, otherwise, buy the hardware if only it would work on their systems. -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.