| ▲ | aeyes a day ago | |
No, they published schematics and full BIOS source code. But it was not libre, they held the copyright to the source code. So to get around this, competing companies wrote a spec from the source code and then had another team which never saw the code implement a new BIOS from the spec. | ||
| ▲ | cromka a day ago | parent [-] | |
That's exactly what blackbox reverse engineering is. | ||