"Timothy J. Massey" wrote:
Even if your BIOS bears no resemblance to the one you disassembled, because you *did* disassemble it, the makers of the BIOS you disassembled can say to you, "But you saw our code and did it yourself. That's illegal." And they'd be right.
This is very true. A couple of years back, some guys who worked for Matrox quit and started their own video chipset company. Matrox successfully blocked their entry into the market because they saw proprietary Matrox engineering information.
I completely agree with Matrox, too. Seeing it is enough. It is pretty much impossible to implement a clean room solution if you saw information from another company.
Therefore, OpenBIOS developers, NEVER DISASSEMBLE A PROPRIETARY BIOS. That would compromise the whole effort.
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