Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 06:01:41 -0700 From: Donald Wilde <dwilde1@thuntek.net> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, junkmale@xtra.co.nz Subject: Re: User Friendly has been shut down Message-ID: <37036E35.3EF9B766@thuntek.net> References: <XFMail.990401152004.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 01-Apr-99 Greg Lehey wrote: > > Sheesh. I wonder who that was. > > Microsoft? Intel? Pick your favourite litigious company. > Now, wait a minute, Daniel! Micros**t sues, yes, but Intel has not initiated any lawsuits! All this crap that's been going on has been initiated by that OTHER roach from AMD named Jerry Sanders. Too bad M$ and AMD aren't in the same business, they'd slaughter each other! Intel developed stuff that wen't far beyond the original second-source and patent-exchange agreements, and AMD didn't have anything comparable. They let the agreement lapse after the i386 generation, with just cause. (I was an assembly-code programmer in a previous life, and my first 'PC' was an Intel SDK-86 eval board. I've followed this for years in EETimes!) What is happening now is the noxious government in Washington is squeezing Intel because "it's bad for business" not to have cheap uP for PC's. AMD and Cyrix have NO right to ANY PORTION of the Pentium market unless they can clean-room it, and experience has shown that they can't. AMD even tried stealing a few years ago. That seems to be becoming ethically acceptable now, there's a company called Avant! in SilVal that's still doing business after it has been proven that they stole code from Cadence. <disgust value=high> Then again, with Bill Clinton in the White House ... </disgust> -- Don Wilde "Bringing the Internet to everyone!" Wilde Media 1380 Rio Rancho Blvd. SE #117 voice: 505-771-0709 Rio Rancho, New Mexico 87124 e-mail: dwilde1@thuntek.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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