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

[Elliott Chapin]

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At 02:24 PM 10/6/03, you wrote:

>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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