On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 09:34:01PM -0400, Joshua 'Schwa' Gargus wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 04:17:04PM -0700, Tim Rowledge wrote:
> > Take a look at
> > http://www.viridiandesign.org/notes/301-350/00320_global_civil_society.html
> > and consider what we might be able to do with Squeak. But do it quickly
> > before it is unlawful...
> 
> I'm not sure what Squeakers can do to stop Microsoft from pushing a
> hardware standard on us, although if you have any suggestions, I'm all
> ears.  It doesn't seem to be primarily a software issue.
> 
> 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.

If the Palladium abomination comes into existance you can count the hours
before the MPAA or the RIAA or similar press for a law to make any consumer
grade alternative illegal.

If they get the beach head, we're in trouble.
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