Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 09:35:24 +0100 From: Stuart Henderson <stuart@internationalschool.co.uk> To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: InfoBeads: Linux #2 ISP OS.. Message-ID: <3556B84C.4F80CC19@internationalschool.co.uk> References: <24122.894783232@time.cdrom.com>
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > FreeBSD's case, that's unlikely to even begin until I64 parts are made > more or less widely available to our developers and I don't see that > happening anytime soon. We'll just have to wait and see how the > market develops. this (from tbtf) looked interesting - ..Judge rules Intel an "essential facility" Guilty in Intergraph lawsuit of abusing its dominant position In a ruling [1] sure to have wide repercussions, on 4/10 a federal judge ruled in favor of Intergraph in its lawsuit accusing Intel of using its dominant market position to force Intergraph to give up key patent rights. The judge ruled that Intel's CPU platform is an "essential facility" -- like air, like water -- and identified specific remedies to address Intel's abuse of its dominant position. One eventual beneficiary of the ruling may be the open software movement -- see "Intel's Merced locking out free OSs" in TBTF for 3/23/98 [2]. [1] http://www.intergraph.com/press98/aprilorder.stm [2] http://www.tbtf.com/archive/03-23-98.html#s03 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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