Do some good for the world; make M$ irrelevant
Michael Rueger
m.rueger at acm.org
Wed Jul 3 02:22:17 UTC 2002
Joshua 'Schwa' Gargus wrote:
> What we need is an alternative hardware platform. Fortunately, it is
> likely that such a thing will still exist even if AMD and Intel bend
> over for MS. China makes a lot of the motherboards nowadays, and they
> are properly distrustful of the NSA/CIA/FBI backdoors that are almost
> certainly built into Windows. With over a billion people, they're a
> big enough market that VIA will probably produce a version of their
> x86 CPU without MS DRM built in.
Wouldn't that be ironic, the largest dictatorial country in the world
guaranteeing the freedom of American computer users...
Now I'm really scared...
Michael
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