Timothy Sipples wrote:
John Chase writes:
Indeed. Windows is about as "open" as the former Soviet Union.
Amen.
Re: "Anyone can build a hardware box to run Windows," well, yes, but you
must go to Intel or AMD for the chip. So you have a duopoly -- AMD
argues
a monopoly -- on the component that matters.
Currently almost every piece of hardware has drivers, and the drivers
are certified by M$. Now it's optional, although customer get serious
warning. Maybe in next version the functionality of "unsupported
hardware" will be reduced, and finally it won't work at all. That's
monopoly. You don't have to produce the hardware, it is enough when you
govern it. For fee.
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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