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SubjectRe: Linux in Mondays NY Times

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.
>
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