[ltp] Re: thinkpad without windows?

[Daniel Pittman]

On 5 Nov 2004, Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 01:16:43PM +0100, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
>> IBM even provides Linux drivers for some of their more exotic hardware
>> such as TCPA chips.
>
> .. and still does not provide _any_ kind of documentation on the hard
> disk motion sensor (ADPS) in order to make a linux driver.  Why?

Because IBM is a very big company, and there are a lot of different
groups inside it.  Some of them like OSS, some of them don't, and some
of them would like to release documentation, but can't for legal
reasons.

Heck, there are a lot of *lawyers* around IBM, and some of them like OSS
releasing of software and some don't. ;)

          Daniel
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