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About 2-3 years ago here on this WinMac list, I was pretty harsh towards
Apple's IEEE 1394 (FireWire) IP licensing terms. Well, it looks like Apple paid
attention: Given the pressure from Intel's competing USB 2.0, Apple reduced the
licensing cost 75%
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2807924,00.html> to about 25
cents; and now 1394 ports are popping up on more and more PC's -- Like my own
VAIO notebook.
This is a Good Development, because now more of those previously esoteric
FireWire peripherals can be used on greater than the 7% of the market that is
Mac based. Key to all of this, though, is robust drivers: How many of us have
had fits with Toast not finding a balky CD-R deck?!
Damned if it ain't that "devil" from FireWire's "devil in the details"
throwing a turd in the punchbowl...
Cheers!
Dan
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