[ltp] Re: ACP modem driver

[Thomas Hood]

Bill Mair's petition has 562 names on it.
Let's guess that about 300 people would be willing to
pay about 25$ for the modem driver.  Could we find
someone to write the driver with IBM's help under
NDA for a fee of 7500$ ?

Because of the aforementioned legal issues, at least
part of the driver will probably have to be distributed
as a binary.  Perhaps the proprietary code could be
distributed as a library to which the rest of the
driver, open source of course, would be linked.  The
open source part would contain as much of the kernel
interface stuff as possible.

--
Thomas Hood


William van Zwanenberg wrote:
> 
> At 09:00 AM 1/5/00 +1000, you wrote:
> >
> >
> >Along these lines why not get RedHat involved, since IBM and RedHat have a
> >partnetship, don't they ??
> 
> Now *that* is a good idea...
> 
> One way or another this issue can be resolved if only IBM would get their
> finger out
> 
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