Quoting Eric Jorgensen <alhaz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > I've heard some reports that many of the taiwanese motherboard makers > felt sufficently jerked around by Apple that even regardless of the cost > licensing they would refuse to include firewire even if it were free. > > Possibly not good business sense, but you can't count on foreign cultures > to act the way you want them to. It actually might make all the business sense. It's called "risks" and "uncertainty". Nobody wants to be forced to either accept unacceptable licensing-terms-of-the-day or be sued into oblivion (with possible recall of the product, financially devastating of course.) In any case, firewire PCI cards are freely available. Dmitri -- Microsoft: "You didn't want to save that, didja?"
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