Re: Future of Unix - comments please
Douglas Bates writes:
> Alpha - DEC is suing Intel, Intel is counter-suing DEC. One recent
> report suggested that a possible resolution is for Intel
> to buy the Alpha architecture from DEC.
I think it was the Wall-Street Journal talking about this some days
ago. This was on the first page of several computer-specialized
french newspapers, that neither Intel nor DEC infirmed neither
confirmed the fact that it will eventually be done.
IMHO we might know more about that within 2 weeks...
> 2. If most manufacturers are using Intel processors, then the market
> is essentially an open hardware market.
>
> There will continue to be some misguided attempts to close hardware
> standards but they will not succeed. The market has gotten too
> accustomed to having open hardware standards to go back.
Ahem. The same newspapers told about Novel and SCO rallying I2O. That
seems really bad news for open hardware...
Does anybody have some precise news about that ? Will the Open
Hardware project be able to counter this ?
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