Software Requirement && DiskOnChip
Josh Boyer
jdub at us.ibm.com
Fri Feb 18 09:54:59 EST 2005
On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 18:41 +0400, Ara Avanesyan wrote:
> ok,
>
> My question is from theory only:)
> Can't then the driver writer copy-paste the documentation to source files as
> comment? really...
Not if there is an agreement with the documentation owners to not
release the documentation. That would be similar to taking a
programming book and pasting the contents into a program you wrote using
information in the book. It's known as plagiarism.
> And what could be the reason to not sharing the hardware documentation to
> the community???
I have no idea. You'd have to ask M-Systems I guess.
(btw, top-posting is frowned upon on this list.)
josh
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