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Nikos Mavroyanopoulos wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 23:00:01 +0300 DJ Art <djart at hellug.gr> wrote:
> 
>> Αντί να ξαναξεκινήσουμε κι άλλο βαρετό πόλεμο, θα μπορούσαμε να
>> σχολιάσουμε αυτό:
>> http://slashdot.org/bsd/01/09/24/1432223.shtml
>> S?ren Schmidt was browsing through the 2.4.10 linux kernel source when
>> he saw something that looked a bit familiar. Too familiar in fact.
>> S?ren is the principle developer of FreeBSD's ATA drivers, including
>> FreeBSD's support for ATA RAID cards, and as he looked through the
>> linux/drivers/ide/ files the sense of deja vu was overwhelming. Read on
>> for more.
> Αυτό που δεν κατάλαβα είναι γιατί έκανε το post στο slashdot αφού
> παραδέχτηκαν την παράληψη οι developers και στην επόμενη έκδοση θα είναι
> μέσα; H γνώμη μου είναι οτι δεν υπάρχει θέμα. Οταν πρεπει να φτιάξεις κάτι
> γρήγορα πολλές φορές μπορεί να ξεχάσεις κάτι - πόσες φορες δεν έχει συμβεί
> σε κάποιον αυτό. Κατι τέτοιο υποθέτω ότι συνέβη και τώρα.

Παράθεση:

From: Adre Hedrick
To: lkml

It is clear that BSD is going off the deep end.

Linux ATA Development has a Legal signed NDA for the proper development of
the complete and correct FastTrak(tm) open sources driver.

I will soon publish the complete header codes in a original header w/
a Linux ATA Development Copyright and Promise Technologies Copyright.
The driver will have a GPL statement be issued in the headers and source
files to prevent the usage in BSDish environments.  I have not tolerance
for being labled a thief.

I will prove the point that Linux does not "STEAL IP", then watch BSD
"borrow" from Linux.  Just like we will watch 48-BIT Addressing be
borrowed without credit.  Just like we will watch the new Ultra133 drivers
be borrowed without credit.  BSD has no legal documentation to develop
these changes or access to hardware.  We will watch and prove where IP
comes from in the world of storage.

Ever noticed how Linux had Ultra100 support 10 minutes after the release
of public information on June 5, 2000 8:00am PDT?

For now the Linux Open Source drivers for SoftRAID need to go away.
Not to worry they will return in full swing.

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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 11:32:52 -0800
From: ---deleted---
To: 'Andre Hedrick' <andre at suse.com>
Subject: RE: [Research] FastTrak66 Ultra ATA/66

Hi Andre,
Very interesting work, I can't guess how you did it. Here is our beta
driver for the Fasttrak. This is the one I told you about. It uses our Raid
engine (engine3.a). Sorry, but as I mentioned there is no possibility of us
releasing the source code for this. However you can get a good idea of how
the engine works by viewing our driver source. Please do not distribute
this driver or the engine binary to anyone.  I've included some quick
documentation too, I remember there is one step missing but it is obvious.

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Here is the proof that I could have done this long before the BSD folks
had a clue about soft raid engines wrt addon cards.

Regards,

Andre Hedrick
CTO ASL, Inc.
Linux ATA Development
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