Am Montag, den 26.09.2011, 11:09 +0200 schrieb Paolo Aglialoro: > Actually I'm way more optimist about OEM motherboard manufacturers rather > than PC companies. > The weak spot will in fact be laptops and other portable equipment, as these > are all proprietary design. > > Considering that laptop sales have overdone standard "fixed" PCs ones since > years, the ecosystem, unless some heavyweight authority will strike hard, > could be severely affected....
Since the early days of open source operating systems there is a continuous flow of scare messages that some hardware innovation will kill open source operating systems. Remember I2O anyone? No serious motherboard manufacturer except maybe at the very bottom end can afford to lock out open source operating systems in the long run. Way too many businesses, even those which appear to be 100.0% Microsoft from the outside, depend on linux and *BSD. If anyone wanted to kill FOSS unixes, 1995 would have been the right time. It's way too late for that now and let's please not spread FUD about this issue.
