A no to Microsoft only PCs ? [LWN.net]

A no to Microsoft only PCs ?

Posted Jun 2, 2004 16:27 UTC (Wed) by mmarq (guest, #2332)
Parent article: Intel to open source EFI firmware code

" Under the CPL, any change in the Foundation code itself and the development kit made by one company will be visible and available to all..."

Does this mean that any change made by Microsoft in the core of EFI, to implement their NGSCB/Paladium scheme, must also be open sourced ?!...

Can anyone enlight how this CPL works, is it an almost copy of the LGPL ?...

This is very fishy!!!... Microsoft participating in a collaborative community effort!?... hmmm... what where they smoking!?... or is just plain fear settling in ?!... or is just nothing and Microsoft can anyway lock-in to themselfs a hardware platform by extending the core EFI with modules ?!...

Some Goverments (in fear of espionage ?), namely China as it seeems, must had twisted a harm or two... but i belive the hard mangement line inside Microsoft must now be taking sleeping pils because of the grief of had to participate in "REAL" Open Source... what an Anti-FUD opportunity ;-)

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Oh please give us a break.

Posted Jun 2, 2004 19:10 UTC (Wed) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]

Perhaps nothing... perhaps everything...
But its really of no importance now that the damn thing is going out as open source... and is really very counterproductive to argue with a hard scepticism that only belive in random cause-effect pairs... the all universe is too much full of a subtil and underlying order and purpose (intelligence ?) that escape all cientific tagging, to discuss "subtilitys" in a least importance issue like this one...
Yes you "probabily" are right on the replay to this very one post... but nothing new... i've been enough "theorectly" tagged and flamed about my allusions to Ma$ter behind SCO a year ago, to even bother now.

Oh please give us a break.

Posted Jun 2, 2004 22:30 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

Your problem is mainly, I think, one of expression. It is hard to understand what you want to say. This is an English-speaking forum, so you should be careful with that. Use a dictionary (Konqueror has a nice built-in one since 3.2), and try to express ideas one at a time.

I am a foreign speaker myself, and I know how hard it is to put ideas through in a foreign language (if that is indeed your case): quite often they just don't get through. Links and quotes help too.

Oh please give us a break.

Posted Jun 3, 2004 20:34 UTC (Thu) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]

Well
Thanks !!