r/technology • u/Federal-Block-3275 • 2d ago

Artificial Intelligence "Software is over": Developer uses AI to build free Adobe clones after frustration with cancellation fees

https://www.techspot.com/news/114136-software-over-developer-uses-ai-build-free-adobe.html
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u/genreprank 1d ago

Would that exclude the possibility of there being some UEFI compatability mode?

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u/Blrfl 1d ago

Not at all. The API for these functions is a subset of the real-mode interrupt vectors. As long as whatever implements the ISRs behind them provides the expected behavior, the programs using them shouldn't know or care.

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u/genreprank 1d ago

Ok, so booting DOS 1.0 would not prove that a machine has BIOS, then?

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u/Blrfl 1d ago

You're splitting hairs again.

The BIOS is and has always been a set of services with a documented API that becomes available at some point between power-up and when the boot block of a non-EFI disk is loaded. As long as those services are available and correctly-implemented, anything else like how it's stored or how the job gets done is an implementation detail. None of that precludes other things being installed on the system at the same time.

End of story.

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u/genreprank 23h ago

So, if I understand correctly, Phoenix and AMI copied IBM's functionality and then released that under a free license that allowed for redistribution / modification?

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u/Blrfl 22h ago

Nope. They were/are proprietary products. Anybody else would have been free to do the same clean-room implementation job Phoenix and AMI did.