B.I.O.S. to lock out non-Windows code ?

[Peter L. Peres]

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Robert Brockway wrote:

> I've always consider how the OpenBIOS people had intended to get around
> the highly architecure specific characteristics of the BIOS.  I suspect a
> minimalist abstraction layer and then everything else in Forth :)

Why do you suspect this instead of reading on it (at the url I posted:
www.openbios.org).  They do indeed use Forth and the interpreter is 90%
implemented. You can download a copy and play with it. So the website
says.

DRM is welcome imho if it will stop the flood of counterfeit copyware that
floods and destroys markets, and if it will cause the riaa etc to back off
from pressuring other uses of shared bandwidth. It is not welcome if it
locks the ability to use the machine for other things, such as writing
your own code/device driver or copying your own anniversary and wedding
DVDs and CDs (a real problem right now). In the way they want to do it now
DRM is not welcome, as it locks both.

Peter
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