Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Steven Osman Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: What about the NDA? Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 20:35:17 -0500 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <45jv50l6qmbac0j284vqvmdbgheq4cqr55@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl093-172-136.pit1.dsl.speakeasy.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.91/32.564 On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 22:45:53 -0800, "Shawn B." wrote: >XGamesStation is about the only "real" open platform. XBox is probly pretty >open when you consider it is intel CPU, the Graphics is ?NVidia?, Windows, >DirectX 8... as far as I can see, XBox is just a super-dedicated commodity >PC. But we can't expect to target it. PS2 Linux, I'm not familiar with >that crowd at the moment. I'm still trying to get my Hello World in Yaroze >working. Hi Shawn, You'd be surprised how "open" the PS2 Linux community is... There's no NDA or anything involved in purchasing the kit, but the manuals that ship with the kit are copyrighted Sony documents. That being said, we have no problem openly discussing a lot of technical issues and details, I've even created a number of libraries that have a lot of the structures and names of variables that appear in the documentation and that doesn't appear to be the least bit of a problem. Sony seems to be very generous with what they allow in that (public) community, there are even projects to build/port emulators on the kit. Sure, they won't endorse putting ROMs on their sites, but they're being very lenient. Sauce