-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu December 28 2006 20:19, Fred A. Miller wrote:
I debated about posting this here, but decided to do so since there's been a lot of interest in what AMD will do with ATI in regards to Linux. Well, after reading the below referenced article, the question as to AMD's intentions is MUCH, MUCH broader, raises my blood pressure considerably, and leaves me wondering will happen after Jan. and Vista is released. The article is long, but worth the read.
Fred
IMHO this is the death tome for M$ and hence why they approached Novell to broker a deal. Can you imagine the screams from sys admins and CTO's about having problems getting devices to work, extra licenses for media and playback... I can see it now. Some suit will try to pop a videocd into the comp at a meeting to show the latest marketing campaign, profit/loss report, ad series only to have it rejected by M$' Vista - we want to rule the world - protection schema! This will fly really well in the corporate circles. Talk about exorbinent costs and overhead for an OS. And the end users revolt could be catastrophic - if not outright legendary. What about the anti-trust issues. M$ maybe able to grease a few dozen palms in the U.S. and other places but this will give the E.U. more ammo to further deride M$' anti-competitive pro-monopoly business practices. I bet nVidia will find a fix for this, whether or not AMD/ATi can! This move may have well been done to placate those such as the RIAA and MPAA, as well as M$' own obsession with piracy - but it spells nothing but heartache for a host of devs/OEM's/ISV's and independent hardware vendors. Just imagine all that backstock going fallow because all the OEMs such as Dell and HP pre-install Vista only to hear a torrid amount of service and support calls that amount to little more than - "I'm sorry, you'll have to upgrade your vid or sound card" or "you can't play your dvd unless you use a Licensed player, or "I'm sorry, you can't share your family videos with your cousins or grandchildren unless they're using Vista" - if that works in the first place. DRM and other things like the DMCA are braindead from the start - and the fact that M$ had tied so much of it's future into these sorts of technologies and practices in todays climate is IMHO a sure fire road to ruin. Any takers on how long it will be after the masses get Vista before M$ starts to work on a fix for this (that's if they can fix it in the first place). Not to mention the ire of the blackhatters and their increased efforts to circumvent and foil anything M$? Could indeed be the longest suicide note to date! Cheers, Curtis. - -- Spammers Beware: Trespassers will be shot, survivors will be shot again! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFlLzR7CQBg4DqqCwRAmgfAJkBhUKOCkHa/SVduycepcqtPEN9FwCfRPOY 9NYxIvmK/rcLCQLQ34z6o2I= =9IQZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org