From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 1 5: 4:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from srv1.thuntek.net (srv1.thuntek.net [206.206.98.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DDB714F10 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 05:04:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwilde1@thuntek.net) Received: from thuntek.net (abq-044.thuntek.net [207.66.52.44]) by srv1.thuntek.net (8.9.1/8.6.12TNT1.0) with ESMTP id GAA28437; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 06:04:01 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <37036E35.3EF9B766@thuntek.net> Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 06:01:41 -0700 From: Donald Wilde X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: Greg Lehey , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, junkmale@xtra.co.nz Subject: Re: User Friendly has been shut down References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. Then again, with Bill Clinton in the White House ... -- 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