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Re: Could someone please check if FSF received papers for Intel engineers?


On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 3:14 PM, J.C. Pizarro <jcpiza@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2008/3/13, Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com> wrote:
>
>
> > J.C. Pizarro wrote:
>  >  > On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:44:29 -0400, David Edelsohn wrote:
>  >  >>      The engineers currently are not listed in the FSF copyrights
>  >  >> assignment file.
>  >  >>
>  >  >> David
>  >  >
>  >  > Why they've to be listed in FSF copyrights assignment file?
>  >  >
>  >  > Intel released original x86 hardware.
>  >  > AMD released original x86-64 hardware.
>  >  >
>  >  > Intel cloned AMD's x86-64 hardware calling it x64.
>  >  > AMD cloned Intel's x86 hardware doing it compatible.
>  >  >
>  >  > The software on hardware needs the hexadecimal specification
>  >  > of the hardware for the working of this pair software-hardware.
>  >  > It's the ASM description of the hardware.
>  >  > Otherwise, this pair won't work without knowledge of the hardware.
>  >  >
>  >  > The problem is when it will start that the hardware company want
>  >  > not to transfer its copyrights of hardware documents to software
>  >  > organization because the hardware company wants to live of the
>  >  > businesses of licenses and copyrightes, and of the lawyers
>  >  > against any software organization who didn't dealed with it.
>  >  >
>  >  > I don't understand how it's made the U.S. law. I'm paranoid in it.
>  >  >
>  >  > I did read IBM suitcases in around 198x about the separation of
>  >  > hardware-software. Wintel cases too.
>  >  >
>  >  >    J.C.Pizarro
>  >
>  >
>  > This is complete nonsense, I suggest you do a bit
>  >  of homework before sending messages to this list,
>  >  which are entirely off topic anyway.
>
>  $ grep -iR "intel\.com" . | sed 's/^[^<]*<\([^>]*\)>.*$/\1/g' | sort -u
>  timc@ibeam.intel.com
>  arjan@linux.intel.com
>  denis_nagorny@linux.intel.com
>  dolan@ssd.intel.com
>  grigory.zagorodnev@intel.com
>  grigory_zagorodnev@linux.intel.com
>  hongjiu.lu@intel.com
>  sunil.k.davasam@intel.com
>  tmcconne@sedona.intel.com
>  $
>
>  Are they listed in FSF copyrights assignment file?

yes.
>
>    J.C.Pizarro
>


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