(no subject)

[Gregg C Levine]

Hello again from Gregg C Levine
Point taken. I did go over his website the first time I heard about his
product. And that point you found was found, but I completely forgot it,
until now. That sticky issue that Info-Zip is grouching about sounds
about right. However, the folks at WinZip Computing, Inc, as they are
calling themselves must have struck some kind of bargain with the actual
patent holder. But how did Info-Zip accomplish everything else? Say
Adam? Which e-mail did you catch? The first? Or second, with my
corrections?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Agnew [mailto:agnew at cs.umd.edu]
> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 10:44 AM
> To: Gregg C Levine
> Cc: Linuxbios
> Subject: RE: (no subject)
> 
> 
> This is pretty off topic, but...
> 
> <clipped from http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/FAQ.html#unshrink >
> (this applies to the unzip that ships with most linux distributions)
> 
> "Why does UnZip say "`shrink' method not supported"?
> 
> The `shrink' compression method is encumbered by a patent. Although it
> appears that stand-alone unshrinking is not covered, the owner has
claimed
> otherwise in public statements, and the matter has never been tested
in
> court. (For what it's worth, the same algorithm is used in other
utilities
> that have been included in every Linux and FreeBSD distribution that
has
> ever shipped or been downloaded, and no one has ever complained about
> that. So the public statements may simply be the usual legal
posturing. On
> the other hand, Info-ZIP has no particular desire to become the test
> case.)
> 
> Thus, by default, unshrinking is not enabled in newer releases of
> Info-ZIP's distributed binaries. Those who wish to download older
binaries
> or compile their own versions may still do so. See UnZip's COPYING and
> INSTALL files for more information. "
> 
> So, yeah, I just repackaged it.
> 
> Other non-sense you speak of.
> 
> <clipped from http://www.pcengines.com/biosfaq.htm>
> "Why do you use A386 rather than MASM/NASM/TASM ?
>     Prior versions of tinyBIOS were based on an assembler I wrote in
1987.
> While ridiculously fast, it did have its limitations. A386 is the
closest
> replacement I could find, easy to get through www.eji.com, and fairly
> priced at $90. Please, please do not attempt to use MASM, NASM or
TASM.
> Your time is worth more than that."
> 
> It is quite a pain to go and buy A386. But then, the man wrote it
himself
> and its pretty hard to find a good open source bios, so I'm not going
to
> complain. Luckily, the reason we're looking at it is really just to
steal
> some interrupt implementations, not to try and use his bios in full.
We're
> experiencing a bit of trouble with INT15 86 and 87 specifically, and
> every source helps.
> 
> - Adam Agnew
> 
> On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Gregg C Levine wrote:
> 
> > Hello from Gregg C Levine
> > Adam, please define that none-sense for me. I have most of the
things
> > here, from that guy's site. My only objections are for the assembler
he
> > chose. I felt he should have used the assembler that's at the core
of
> > the binary utilities of the GNU set of tools, instead of A86. Or
even
> > Turbo Assembler from Borland, at least they understand proper
licensing.
> > Oh, and thank you for repackaging the whole material in that form. I
> > didn't have any problems unzipping any of it here, just a darned
> > nuisance to make it work here.
> > -------------------
> > Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon at worldnet.att.net
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
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> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: linuxbios-admin at clustermatic.org [mailto:linuxbios-
> > > admin at clustermatic.org] On Behalf Of Adam Agnew
> > > Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 9:27 AM
> > > To: adam at cfar.umd.edu
> > > Cc: linuxbios at clustermatic.org; rminnich at lanl.gov
> > > Subject: (no subject)
> > >
> > > This is mostly for Adam Sulmicki for the benefit of our current
> > project,
> > > but it's been about a year since it was mentioned last so I felt
it
> > > wouldn't help to reiterate (i know i forgot) that there exists
another
> > > open source bios, tinyBIOS
> > >
> > > http://www.pcengines.com/tinybios.htm
> > >
> > > and since his zip file is difficult to uncompress due to patents
or
> > some
> > > such non-sense, i repackaged it at
> > > http://www.missl.cs.umd.edu/~agnew/anopenbios.zip
> > >
> > > - Adam Agnew
> > >
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