On Monday 01 July 2002 11:23, Gary Stainburn wrote:
On Monday 01 July 2002 10:40 am, Alan Harris wrote:
Here's a disturbing bit of news :-
TCPA / Palladium Frequently Asked Questions
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/tcpa-faq.html
What do you think - MS to rule the world?
This has also been mentioned on the WYLUG list, with a link to a good article at http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25891.html
What happens if someone in Taiwan just makes vanilla motherboards and we use AMD processors and Linux? Seems to me that this could accelerate people to open systems away from all the hassle. Unless the government legislated to make such machines illegal which seems a bit unlikely here and very unlikely in places like China and South America. It would certainly be a deciding factor in my company to go entirely Linux. -- IanL