Jim Thompson wrote:
"Mighty Blue" got knocked down via their Consent Decree,
"Consent Decree"? What consent decree? (I think you have mixed up the
IBM case with AT&T, Jim.) In the antitrust case against IBM, DOJ was
clobbered by David Boies, the lead attorney for IBM--the gov dropped the
case b/c Boies showed them that this case should never have been filed
in the first place.
In any event, IBM found themselves relegated to all but obscurity
until they "found" linux.
IBM could do some very interesting things with "Cell". It could be
cool if all of your high-end
consumer electronics acted as one large computational grid. It would
be still cooler if IBM develops a distributed linux for these devices.
Sony has already announced that the PS3 will run linux on its
pre-installed 60GB HD, including support for the SPEs.
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3148775
So now we have a real war to watch: XBox Live (Windows) .vs PS3 (Linux)
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/cell/downloads_doc.html
Will FOSS win out overproprietary software?
Jim
I am curious whether it would be possible to run MythTV on PS3. Wayne
