Le 2011-10-25 à 10:17:00, Andy Farnell a écrit :
The mechanism by which a simple manufacturer of hardware gets to set
themselves up as arbiters of taste, decency, political correctness, code
quality, economic models, acceptable use... ... is baffling and
disturbing.
That's not anything new, BTW. In the 80's, a company took the market by
storm, by being such picky control freaks about their 6502-based platform.
Their name was Nintendo. They didn't have private-key signing, but they
did sue some unauthorised manufacturers, and I don't know what else they
did, but very few ROMs did not bear their « Seal of Quality ».
(The Seal might have been only a North-American thing though, or perhaps a
non-Japan thing... I don't know. Nintendo and related companies sometimes
have had wildly different marketing depending on the continent)
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