In some mail I received from Andrew Gillham, sie wrote
> 
> > [From a friend...]
> > > 
> > > i've been reading disturbing news that Intel's and Micro$oft's new PC Bus inititative
> > > (Called I2O) has developer documentation which is available only with the payment
> > > of hefty licence fees. Furthermore, developers have to promise not to release any
> > > information on this interface, nor any source code for any drivers that they develop
> > > fot I2O. Even if you can get information to write drivers, 
> > > you will be banned from distributing those drivers. This will wreak havoc on 
> > > free OSs like linux and freeBSD.
> > > more information from: www.i2osig.org
> 
> In the "Good Old Days" wasn't this called collusion?

btw, I've since been given a URL to this document (for v1.5 I'm told):

ftp://smith.net.au/doc/i2o/i2o-ver-1-5.pdf