Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 16:04:00 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: yamaha japan relationships anyone? Message-ID: <20000220160400.H79013@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002201208260.77743-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>; from dfr@nlsystems.com on Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 12:10:13PM %2B0000 References: <20000220024926.B81021@rohrbach.de> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002201208260.77743-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
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-On [20000220 14:14], Doug Rabson (dfr@nlsystems.com) wrote: >On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote: > >> i just messaged the guys from yamaha japan for specs on their pci audio >> chipsets to get some decent documentation to start torturing those ymf744 >> soundcards. no response. i mailed again. same result. do they actually >> read their mail or is this an uncommon thing in .jp? > >I have had more-or-less the same experience. I did get a response which >completely misunderstood what I was asking and assumed I wanted the >source code to their windows driver. My reply explaining that I really >just wanted documentation went unanswered. Sigh. Well Doug, you're in the UK, so part of the European Community. And since you requested information from Yamaha and got none, you are now legally clean of action due to the law that you may disassemble/reverse engineer their drivers to obtain the information you need to program the driver. For once, a cool law in Europe. -- Jeroen Ruigrok vd Werven/Asmodai asmodai@[wxs.nl|bart.nl|freebsd.org] Documentation nutter/B-rated Coder BSD: Technical excellence at its best The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; Religion... Is the opium of the people... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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