From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 28 7:24: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from picard.skynet.be (picard.skynet.be [195.238.3.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 526A537B405 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 07:23:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from [194.78.241.123] ([194.78.241.123]) by picard.skynet.be (8.11.2/8.11.2/Skynet-OUT-2.11) with ESMTP id f5SEFdY25025; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 16:15:40 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from ) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <2515701.993712862@[192.168.1.60]> References: <200106260901.AA23134284@stmail.pace.edu> <20010626084126W.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <2425994267.20010627160101@163.net> <20010628103439.C9802@lpt.ens.fr> <2515701.993712862@[192.168.1.60]> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 15:19:56 +0200 To: Stuart Krivis , chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: So what happens to FreeBSD now? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 7:21 AM -0400 6/28/01, Stuart Krivis wrote: > I don't see this happening at all. Apple does need to quit pissing off > Motorola, but I don't see that Apple has the expertise to design a CPU. No, the issue is that Motorola is seriously hurting right now (because of market turndown in a lot of their other segments), and they're simply not focused on the desktop computer market, so they're not delivering to Apple the kinds of chips Apple needs at the speeds Apple needs, or in the timeframe Apple needs. IBM is doing a better job of this, but they are still primarily focused on the server market. I believe that Apple could buy their way into the chip design business, by giving a lot of money to Motorola and effectively making them a junior partner in the PowerPC consortium. Motorola could continue to do whatever they want in the embedded market, but Apple would no longer have their destiny controlled by a company that is suffering from a serious loss of business focus, is having lots of management difficulties, and is rather disinterested in whatever happens to Apple. IMO, Apple really has no choice. They have to be able to take their destiny into their own hands. -- Brad Knowles, /* efdtt.c Author: Charles M. Hannum */ /* Represented as 1045 digit prime number by Phil Carmody */ /* Prime as DNS cname chain by Roy Arends and Walter Belgers */ /* */ /* Usage is: cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob */ /* where title-key = "153 2 8 105 225" or other similar 5-byte key */ dig decss.friet.org|perl -ne'if(/^x/){s/[x.]//g;print pack(H124,$_)}' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message