Ah - thanks for the update.
Should have checked in Wikipedia...
"the royalty which Apple Inc. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.> and
other patent <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent> holders initially
demanded from users of FireWire (US$0.25 per
end-user<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-user>system...since been
dropped"
cheers
jez
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 5:49 AM, Jan Steinman <Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > From: "Jez Cunningham" <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Strange world - my PC has firewire (even though it means Dell had to
> > pay
> > Apple the royalty)
>
>
> No royalty involved. IEEE-1394, a.k.a. "FireWire," is a standard that
> anyone can implement.
>
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