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sean o'malley somalley at oses.mde.state.mi.us
Thu Jul 15 22:14:27 EST 1999


>Jason Haas writes:
>>
>> Matt Porter wrote:
>>
>> > Hrm, I wonder
>> > what the licensing cost of OF is or would it be better to do an open
>> > implementation of the standard...
>>
>> I think it's about $0.5M.
>Good lord!  Going the implement-your-own-of route sounds like the best
>(only) way to go for something like this.
>
>Do you know of any current projects to do something like this?
>

OF (not necessarily Apples ..) is based on the IEEE 1275 standard and I was
under the impression that they had  newer standard or were close to hacking
one together.

did you try http://www.openfirmware.org/  ??





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