[ltp] Re: thinkpad without windows?

[Ragnar Hojland Espinosa]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 12:54:35PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> 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.

I understand that, and I'd like to know who is responsible for the
ADPS "blackout" in order to talk to them and see if we can reach some
sort of mutual argeement.

I'm not even getting that.. you make progress and then blam, silence
and back to square 0 and explaining what I want, and what for.

Ah well.
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