Actually, a bit more. Apple invented it and last I read anything
about it was charging a $1 license fee for each jack on a device.
Resistance to the fee is what spurred the development of USB2. Made
me wonder how cheap USB was.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Jun 14, 2006, at 9:20 AM, Patrick Moore wrote:
> FireWire is a trademark, I think of Apple (though I'm really not
> sure.)
> IEEE1394 is the international standard for the protocol and they stick
> that on to avoid trademark issues.
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