Reverse engineering is NOT an IP theft. How do you think the whole thing of IBM-compatibles came about? Compaq reverse-engineered the BIOS which was the only non-off-the-shelf item to manufacture its first line of IBM-compatibles. I'm sure that IBM was pissed (I don't know if they actually sued), but look where we are now. I understand that SONY doesn't want to become the IBM of the gaming (PS) world, but such is life. As long there is no proof that actual proprietary code was stolen from SONY, they lose.
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And the funniest thing is that someone is accusing Berst of carrying a grudge against Microsoft! And being on "Linux payroll"! Ha!
Geez, people can be so clueless....
Aside from the verbosenes of the press release, why is LinuxPPC not listed in the Distributions?
Aleks
Reverse engineering is NOT an IP theft. How do you think the whole thing of IBM-compatibles came about? Compaq reverse-engineered the BIOS which was the only non-off-the-shelf item to manufacture its first line of IBM-compatibles. I'm sure that IBM was pissed (I don't know if they actually sued), but look where we are now. I understand that SONY doesn't want to become the IBM of the gaming (PS) world, but such is life. As long there is no proof that actual proprietary code was stolen from SONY, they lose.
Aleks