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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Intel Expected to Open Next-gen BIOS Code in China
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Intel will open "foundation code" of its next-generation firmware
>| technology to some companies in China, while the companies to be
>| authorized still need to obtain qualification approval by China's
>| Ministry of Information Industry, sources said.
> `----
>
> http://www.cabi.net.cn/view_article.php?id=469
>
> Graphics cards, processors, BIOS, O/S, P/L (more latterly Java), software,
> formats, protocols...
>
> Everything is gradually becoming Open.
It's about survival, and Intel are certainly under pressure at the
moment. The Microsoft Windows gravy-train has reached it's last stop on
the express tracks, and has been in the sidings for a few years now.
It'll go again, but now onto the suburban tracks, and perhaps the remote
tracks, but I can't see it returning to the express tracks any more.
--
| Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants,
today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
-- Dave Barry
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