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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 16 2012 @ 12:26 AM EDT |
Either way, it seems either a trade violation or abuse of monopoly to take an
entire segment of CPU technology from multiple vendors.
Computers need to be available with out restrictions imposed on them by self
interested third parties.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: drorh on Sunday, September 16 2012 @ 07:34 AM EDT |
If I read Intel's comments correctly, it s not that Linux is
going to be barred from running on this chip -- it is only
that since this chip was built to work with Windows 8 with
close collaboration, there are some power related
"interfaces" involved that are kept secret between Intel and
Microsoft. It only takes someone really interested in reverse
engineering this interface to make it able to not only run
Linux (which it will be able to do anyway) but to also use
the advanced power management features. Would anyone bother?
I doubt it.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 16 2012 @ 07:20 PM EDT |
Just don't expect any help from intel if you try. Surprising, but not
anticompetitive unless there really are technical restrictions preventing
anything but win 8 (very unlikely).[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 16 2012 @ 08:12 PM EDT |
I could see something sort of like the winmodems, a bit of hardware was replaced
by software. Part of the cpu microcode will be provided by a binary blob
protected by encryption, the DMCA, and all muscle the monopoly can throw at
anyone who looks sideways at it.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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