Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Jul 1998 11:11:00 -0500 (CDT) | From | Dustin Marquess <> | Subject | Re: Linux in Mondays NY Times |
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Bah.. Alpha was bought out by Compaq.. I'm never touching another one again :)
-Dustin
On Wed, 8 Jul 1998 alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > > Worse that that. If you buy any Intel processor since the 8086, US$5.00 > > of the cost is a license fee paid to Micro$haft. Micro$haft claims > > ownership to the "Intel Architecture", i.e., what used to be called > > the "IBM-PC/AT". They "purchased" the rights to this design from IBM > > sometime in the early '70s, waited about 10 years for major developments > > to be made by Intel and others, then threatened a suit. The settlement > > was a 5.00 per processor fee to be paid by the end-user. > > WHAT?! That's fucking outrageous. It's a fucking tax on CPUs, for Gawd > sakes. No wonder Intel CPUs are so expensive. Has noone drawn the Dept of > Justice's attention to this?! *fume* > > Fine, I'll buy an Alpha instead. > > Cheers, > Alex. > > Watch out, the NSA are everywhere. Your computer must be watched! > > /\_/\ Legalise cannabis now! > ( o.o ) Smoke some cannabis today! > > ^ < Peace, Love, Unity and Respect to all. > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu >
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