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Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by MichaelZuo on Sunday August 07, 2022 @09:18AM (#32376261)
Huh? Why wouldn't they have gone off IBM's design? It seems extremely likely they would have had several copies in their 'clean room'.
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Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by bigtones on Sunday August 07, 2022 @11:24PM (#32382148)
Because going off IBM's design would have been illegal. It's one of the most famous and well documented reverse engineering projects ever, and they had no copies of the IBM Bios in their clean room because otherwise it would have been illegal. That's literally what clean room reverse engineering means.
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Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by MichaelZuo on Monday August 08, 2022 @06:29PM (#32391926)
> 'they had no copies of the IBM Bios in their clean room because otherwise it would have been illegal' According to who?
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