The End of the Free PCI Device List (Update)

Posted by chrisd on Thursday January 16, 2003 @08:22AM from the please-don't-buy-our-hardware dept.

imann writes "For many years, Jim Boemler was the maintainer of a free PCI device table which reference all the PCI ID's of PCI Devices. This service is used by Free Operating Systems for keeping up to date their pci device list. That was a very usefull service for us (i was working in a Linux distro in the hardware suport team). It was wonderfull until the PCI-SIG had their lawyers cease and desisted him to stop this service because of the use of the PCI logo AND name ! You don't have the right to use the three letters P,C,I ! Incredible... So he was forced to close his website. This is a incredible loss for the hardware support in the Free Software world. I hope PCI-SIG will change its position ! Please support Jim." A friend emailed me to point out that many /.ers have been emailing the wrong person to complain....read on for details... Jamal wrote, "The story you posted is causing us a headache. Our CTO, Alan Deikman is being bombarded by emails from people reading that story. Alan is not the person in charge of the PCI SIG, his only sin is that Znyx did host the PCI sig in the early 90s and he was the list maintainer. This was a gracious act and should not be rewarded the way it is now. Infact he is trying to help the gent with that website to see if things get resolved." Alan's email was posted on the page we linked to, erroneously.

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What's next? by Gortbusters.org · 2003-01-16 08:31 · Score: 0, Offtopic

AFK? Sup? How about "yo", or "heh"

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Re:Huh? by jgerman · 2003-01-16 08:34 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I've often wondered the same thing, what do they have to gain, and the only conclusion I can come up with in these circumstances is that whoever makes these decisions is simply stupid. There is really no other explanation.

I was wondering about my posts starting at 1 as well...

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Odd that a technical group would be so clueless by tweek · 2003-01-16 08:37 · Score: 0, Offtopic

But then again look at the Reflector mailing list archives.

These idiots can't even run the listserv properly. They have countless amounts of spam and virus attempts.

I'm just surprised at how stupid some companies can be some times. Did you know several years ago they actually WANTED to host the hardware list themselves but they couldn't figure out if the ISP would let them run CGI's or not.

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Re:I mean, c'mon now, really (Hijack request) by mjolner · 2003-01-16 12:30 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I wish I had mod status because I want to mod you up. This seems the likeliest.