[ale] [Fwd: [Am-info] Advanced Micro Devices will includeMicrosoft's Palladium]

[Adrin]

Just in case you didn't know.  AMD and others already have to pay Intel money to use the
X86 standards. I forget what it is actually called.

Adrin


> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Wells [mailto:jb at sourceillustrated.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 6:17 PM
> To: Jeff Hubbs
> Cc: Dow Hurst; Geoffrey; ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] [Fwd: [Am-info] Advanced Micro Devices will
> includeMicrosoft's Palladium]
>
>
> On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 18:02, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> > How
> > would you run your own operating system (Open Source OSses count)?  The
> > Alpha AXP?  PowerPC?
>
> You wouldn't.  That's one of the hidden benefits Microsoft will reap.
>
> > Can there be an Open Source CPU - completely open specification - such
> > that anyone with the equipment can build it?  Will the Feds shut them
> > down like moonshiners?
>
> If some (Fritz, et al) have their way, they would shut you down.
> However, with the large amounts of $$$ behind this lobbying, I suspect
> the penalties would be more akin to those aimed at drug lords than
> moonshiners ;-).
>
> I know I sound extreme....but hell, everything I've read sounds extreme
> so far.  I'll be surprised if people stand for this kind of surrender of
> control...but then again...
>
> John
>
>
>
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