____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Saturday 10 May 2008 04:40 : \____
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Moshe Goldfarb
> <brick.n.straw@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Fri, 9 May 2008 22:12:34 -0400
> <10xlkaxn25mzt.jhwdivu5vk4u$.dlg@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> On Sat, 10 May 2008 02:46:32 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>> Intel plays games with USB3.0
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>> Who cares?
>> You can bet it will work with Windows.
>>
>> Linux?
>>
>> Who cares?
>>
>> 0.6 percent of the population?
>>
>
> Are you that enamored of Roy that you have to follow him
> around like a sick puppy?
>
> But yes, USB3 will work with Windows; Microsoft will
> make sure of that. In fact, Microsoft will probably work
> with OEMs to ensure that USB3 uses patented, proprietary
> technology. Can't be too careful, after all.
Linux got a GPL-licensed implementation of USB 2.0 a couple of months ago,
IIRC.
As for Microsoft, dumpster Billy not only picks up PCs from the trash and dumps
PCs on people in order for them to avoid Linux... he does this too:
From: Bill Gates
Sent: Sunday, January 24, 1999 8:41 AM
To: Jeff Westorinen; Ben Fathi
Cc: Carl Stork (Exchange); Nathan Myhrvold; Eric Rudder
Subject: ACPI extensions
One thing I find myself wondering about is whether we shouldn't try
and make the "ACPI" extensions som
It seems unfortunate if we do this work and get our partners to do the
work and the results is that Linux w
Maybe there is no way to avoid this problem but it does bother me.
Maybe we could define the APIs so that they work well with NT and not
the others even if they are open.
Or maybe we could patent something related to this.
http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/px03020.pdf
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