-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu December 28 2006 20:19, Fred A. Miller wrote: > I debated about posting this here, but decided to do so since there's > been a lot of interest in what AMD will do with ATI in regards to Linux. > Well, after reading the below referenced article, the question as to > AMD's intentions is MUCH, MUCH broader, raises my blood pressure > considerably, and leaves me wondering will happen after Jan. and Vista > is released. The article is long, but worth the read. > > Fred > > http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt
IMHO this is the death tome for M$ and hence why they approached Novell to broker a deal. Can you imagine the screams from sys admins and CTO's about having problems getting devices to work, extra licenses for media and playback... I can see it now. Some suit will try to pop a videocd into the comp at a meeting to show the latest marketing campaign, profit/loss report, ad series only to have it rejected by M$' Vista - we want to rule the world - protection schema! This will fly really well in the corporate circles. Talk about exorbinent costs and overhead for an OS. And the end users revolt could be catastrophic - if not outright legendary. What about the anti-trust issues. M$ maybe able to grease a few dozen palms in the U.S. and other places but this will give the E.U. more ammo to further deride M$' anti-competitive pro-monopoly business practices. I bet nVidia will find a fix for this, whether or not AMD/ATi can! This move may have well been done to placate those such as the RIAA and MPAA, as well as M$' own obsession with piracy - but it spells nothing but heartache for a host of devs/OEM's/ISV's and independent hardware vendors. Just imagine all that backstock going fallow because all the OEMs such as Dell and HP pre-install Vista only to hear a torrid amount of service and support calls that amount to little more than - "I'm sorry, you'll have to upgrade your vid or sound card" or "you can't play your dvd unless you use a Licensed player, or "I'm sorry, you can't share your family videos with your cousins or grandchildren unless they're using Vista" - if that works in the first place. DRM and other things like the DMCA are braindead from the start - and the fact that M$ had tied so much of it's future into these sorts of technologies and practices in todays climate is IMHO a sure fire road to ruin. Any takers on how long it will be after the masses get Vista before M$ starts to work on a fix for this (that's if they can fix it in the first place). Not to mention the ire of the blackhatters and their increased efforts to circumvent and foil anything M$? Could indeed be the longest suicide note to date! Cheers, Curtis. - -- Spammers Beware: Trespassers will be shot, survivors will be shot again! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFlLzR7CQBg4DqqCwRAmgfAJkBhUKOCkHa/SVduycepcqtPEN9FwCfRPOY 9NYxIvmK/rcLCQLQ34z6o2I= =9IQZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
