In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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wrote
on Sat, 10 May 2008 09:29:39 +0100
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> ____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Saturday 10 May 2008 04:40 : \____
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>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Moshe Goldfarb
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>> wrote
>> on Fri, 9 May 2008 22:12:34 -0400
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>>> 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
Erm...these look like they got schnipped by your cut&paste.
>
> Maybe there is no way to avoid this problem but it does bother me.
Enforcement helps, I suspect. (Competition might help even more.
I'm hoping for a viable freeware non-Intel desktop, though at
this point the only ones even remotely close might be very old model
HP/UX or Solaris workstations.)
>
> Maybe we could define the APIs so that they work well with NT and not
> the others even if they are open.
The main issue is indeed standardization.
>
> Or maybe we could patent something related to this.
>
> http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/px03020.pdf
>
That went thud. Got an alternative link?
http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/px03020.pdf
doesn't work either; it throws me to a squatter page (and a
rather annoying one at that, as it opens a window after
I close the original window).
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