MAIL> send To: Hanley Subj: Porting code to AXP Enter your message below. Press CTRL/Z when complete, or CTRL/C to quit: Bill - I have a friend who is having some trouble with a former employer claiming that porting software to OVMS AXP is a proprietary skill and in particular that driver porting to the step2 interface is a proprietary skill. To me this is bull. Digital has training courses, supplies manuals, lets listing CDs be viewed at DECUS (and gives them away in magic) and generally makes them available for a fairly modest license fee AND has web sites and people who informally participate on the net to answer some technical questions to HELP people port their software to AXP OVMS. There's even a book being published to support this. While I can say this, it would help if someone in management would make a statement along the lines of "Porting software to OVMS AXP, and in particular porting system software using Step 2 drivers, is a supported activity. Digital supplies documents, training, listings, and other technical help for those involved in such activity, and views the skills of writing systems software for OVMS AXP as information it provides, rather than the property of any third party. Use of Digital's provided information is governed by Digital license terms which generally support writing code to work with Digital program interfaces, including device driver interfaces. It would be a welcome development, indeed, if the entire computing industry were to become familiar with these interfaces." Can you, or do you know anyone who could (or perhaps has already) make such a statement officially? The foregoing would I think take care of the issue with my friend, but whoever makes a statement must decide what he wants said... Thanks. Glenn Everhart