Re: USB2 faster than Firewire

"Bill Tuthill" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Barry Twycross <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> >>
> >> And not becuase the PC industry inevitably picks the crappy product
> >> because it's a few cents cheaper?
> >
> > Its more than a few cents, its 25 cents.
> >
> > FireWire costs 25c a system to licence, USB is a flat fee of $1500
> > (possibly for ever) or maybe $2600 a year.
>
> Who collects the 25c royalty? I thought Firewire had become a standard,
> IEEE 1394, which appears to be available on Linux (www.linux1394.org)
> for free or perhaps with copyleft, I dunno.
>
> Why can't the PC vendors reimplement it as did the Linux community?

It's because of the license fee that more motherboards/devices use USB over
Firewire




Mark Leuck

On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 22:14:36 GMT, "Mark Leuck" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>
>"Bill Tuthill" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Barry Twycross <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> And not becuase the PC industry inevitably picks the crappy product
>> >> because it's a few cents cheaper?
>> >
>> > Its more than a few cents, its 25 cents.
>> >
>> > FireWire costs 25c a system to licence, USB is a flat fee of $1500
>> > (possibly for ever) or maybe $2600 a year.
>>
>> Who collects the 25c royalty? I thought Firewire had become a standard,
>> IEEE 1394, which appears to be available on Linux (www.linux1394.org)
>> for free or perhaps with copyleft, I dunno.
>>
>> Why can't the PC vendors reimplement it as did the Linux community?
>
>It's because of the license fee that more motherboards/devices use USB over
>Firewire
>
I believe that USB is faster going between multiple devices,
but Firewire is faster for a streaming application with no bus
contention.
But for the answer to what is on the motherboard, see above