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Re: The End of the Free PCI Device List


Hi Lionel,

On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 11:29:49AM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/16/180209&mode=nested&tid=153
> http://www.yourvote.com/pci/
> 
> The PCI Device List, the main resource for free OS's to recognise PCI
> devices, has been threatened by PCI-SIG, the industry consortium in
> charge for PCI, for use of their logo and their trademark "PCI", and
> thus shut down. Stay tuned...

The handling (and maybe the contents, I'm no expert) of trademark law seems
to be almost as stupid as patent law.

In this case, it's no big deal, as
http://pciids.sourceforge.net/
has the more complete and less error containing PCI ID list anyway.
And despite the page title, it's in no way restricted to Linux.

Regards,

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