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  1. Re:MorphOS by johannesg · · Score: 1 · on Tracking GPL Violators
    You may be right, but ixemul was originally created by Markus Wild in 1991, and contains BSD-licensed code. Of course I have no idea how it evolved over the years, I've lost touch with the community. There is some information here.

  2. Old news... by Daniel+Wood · · Score: 2, Informative · on Dreamcast Reading An IDE Hard Drive

    bITmASTER32 made an IDE interface and Kiyoshi Ikehara built released a driver for NetBSD a long time ago. What this guy did was nothing special. They have been Lan booting NetBSD on a dreamcast and using the HDD (albeit slow, 800k/sec) for a while now.

  3. If only the Dreamcast had two ethernet adapters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on End Of the Road for Duron

    Actually, it'd be nice to find one for a reasonable price. There has been some work on reverse-engineering the Dreamcast's proprietary expansion port (one link provided below).

    Wish Linux Dreamcast Project would finish their homepage!

    Linux Dreamcast Project at Sourceforge

    "Bitmaster's" Dreamcast Development page

    Do a Google search too.

  4. Re:BBA by syukton · · Score: 2, Informative · on Sega Drops Dreamcast Price To $50

    Ye ask, and ye shall receive. A pair of guys are doing such work, and their pages can be found here and here. As far as I know, they work independantly of one another with no contact, but they're both making very nice progress and they link back to one-another's sites and work.

  5. DreamCast Hard Drive by hattig · · Score: 4, Informative · on Sega Drops Dreamcast Price To $50
    http://www.ma.nma.ne.jp/~ikehara/dc/dcwdc.html

    http://homepages.compuserve.de/bITmASTER32/dc/dc-i de.html

    With pictures, etc.

  6. GPL adaptions to local legislations? by HGWS · · Score: 1 · on Talk Things Over With Richard M. Stallman

    In the latest issue of the german publication Linux Magazin (this article is not available online), Till Jaeger mentioned that Sections 11 and 12 of the GPL, concerning warranty and liability, will be void according to german law.
    He explained that the "General Trading Conditions Act" (Gesetz zur Regelung des Rechts der Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen, aka AGBG) makes it impossible in germany to completely withdraw the creators responsibility for a given product, even if the product is donated, like software downloaded for free. I.e. in the case of intend ("Vorsatz") or serious negligence ("grobe Fahrlässigkeit") the author of a program will be liable to a certain extend.

    Worst of all I think, because of the complete denial of warranty and liability the GPL is sporting, the aformentioned sections 11 and 12 become void.

    So what about a localized "German GPL" or a "Germany Clause" in the GPL to reduce the risk for the program's author to a maximum extend by not completely voiding these sections?

    (BTW: Maybe this problem not only concerns germany but also some eastern european countries - concerning trade laws and consumer rights, they have often adopted german legislation in the past decade.)