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This really reminds me of one of Gary Larsen's "Far Side" cartoons: Some
lady is looking in her car side mirror inscribed with the standard
"Objects in mirror are closer than they appear". The mirror shows a huge
black hole closing in fast :)
I think that we'll see some interesting ads in the next while now that
Microsoft's SEC filing officially acknowledged that they saw Linux in
their rear-view mirror.
> We all know how friendly Intel and Microsoft are, how likely is it that
> Bill called up Andrew and said "Help me out here, throw some
> money at them so we can say that they have some big money
> backing them too - Also it gets the DOJ off your back because you
> have visibly supported someone other than us in the OS ring!"
Honestly, you would not think Intel invested in RHS just because they
thought this was going somewhere, did you? I sure wish that this is only
a reaction to some people on the Linux kernel group wanting to enhance
support for other x86 compatibles like the K6-2.
> I also heard that (I haven't seen anything official mind you) that
> Compaq has sold off the CPU side of Digital to Intel, which means
> Intel also now owns the Alpha... (Which isn't part of the conspiracy
> theory, just an interesting aside...)
This would be an interesting development, for sure. We'll see NT-only
processor extensions to the alpha platform soon, along with a complete
non-disclosure agreement being required a'la the Intel Pentium and later
processor specific instruction set.
Next thing will be that Intel bought out TransMeta after their RISC CPU
rumours and Linus was suddenly missing.
The plot thickens...
Beers,
Mr. Jan