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The catch (and the reason this is taking so long) is that most of these old drivers were written with information under NDA from hardware manufactuers.
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In reference to one of the early posters who suggested that we GPL the old product source code, you must be a mind reader! We have in fact been pursuing this exact route for about the last 6 months, and have been getting ready to release the source code for the old UniVBE product under the GPL license. Look at the PC104 form factor (looks like a 16bit eisa card)–people are STILL developing for it!! You’d be surprise how many people still use “old” machines–or Single Board Computers.
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Setup a forum specifically for the GPL’ed source code and you’ll have free technical support for it. Basically it’s free research and development.
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As a result you MAY get free coders working on direct ports or software derivatives for Linux, BeOS, or other alternative, previously untapped OS–then apply those techniques to your current PCI-AGP projects. GPL-ing your old drivers, would, I think, pose no threat to your current business or business model, you’d provide the old software “as-is” with no warranty–caveat emptor.Īllowing others to view your GPL’ed code may possibly open new markets for your company as well–> look at 802.11b for linux, many people have contributed code for the various chipsets and drivers out there for Linux and BeOS–This only increased sales of 802.11b hardware and created a lot of cooperation and discussion between buyer and seller–buyers got the support they wanted, sellers got free marketing insight into what these customers really wanted- customers from a previously untapped market– and some skilled customers even helped with the deveopment of the drivers for free, cutting time-to-market and costing nothing.įor Sci-Tech GPL’ing your drivers for use on older hardware would certainly get your name out and give you at the least some free advertising–as a company that supports open standards and is willing to give their customers the best of both worlds: a lean piece of PCI-AGP software, and for those with older machines drivers for their video cards and an opportunity to play with the source code and possibly get it to work on another operating system– Remember, if you GPL the code, you get to see all the changes, and you decide what changes will get added to the source. As the old commercial for retarded US citizens goes “Don’t throw us away” –us being users of old hardware, not retarded people. Your new PCI & AGP drivers, are your core business now. Your old ISA and VLB drivers would definitely have some use there (western digital video cars, YUCK.) Also, people do create their own PC-Firewalls based out of old 486s, even some 386s. I realize that this “old” code was the bread and butter that put Sci-Tech on the map, but the OS’ that can benefit from your drivers would be ones such as FreeDOS with SEAL 2.0 GUI, or other DOS clones.
Would it be possible for SCI-TECH to GPL the source for old video drivers that you want to obsolete? The GPL would prevent anyone from selling your code and if people wish to make changes to your code, they must submit them to you if they want to distribute it (for free.) I think most linux users (myself included) and even distros like redhat/etc would love this kind of product. Pretty much the same bussines model as OSS(4front)/OSS free, or thekompany.
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To the Xfree project, to improve driver support, while at the same time selling a compatible and commercial version of it with propertary drivers (their license allows it). I guess videocards just got incredibly more complicated than setting a videomode, switching pages or using a framebuffer, orĮven the cool windowing and triple buffering extensions from your drivers, so it’s a harder market to support.Īs a bussiness practice, maybe scitech could contribute some So, if anyone from scitech is reading this i’d like to personally thank you for being such a cool company It is also great to hear what scitech has done for openwatcom too. Eugenia, i dont think BeOS can take advantage of VLBĬards, since It doesnt work on 486 computers (that allways made me sad, as it worked great on my pentium 100). I was a very happy customer, as scitech display doctor was vital for me in the DOS era, my card bios didnt have VESA 2.0 support.
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