http://techrights.org/2010/09/24/on-swpats-and-buying-arm-holdings/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 http://techrights.org/2010/09/24/on-swpats-and-buying-arm-holdings/comment-page-1/#comment-100635 Sat, 25 Sep 2010 21:00:23 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=39443#comment-100635 We’ve landed some robots there, without Windows.

]]> http://techrights.org/2010/09/24/on-swpats-and-buying-arm-holdings/comment-page-1/#comment-100634 Sat, 25 Sep 2010 20:25:03 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=39443#comment-100634 Indeed, I compare the collusion M$/Intel – Wintel – as the dark ages of spanish inquisition. If it was not that collusion, which made personal computing lag behind, I wonder where would we be today. Already in Mars, perhaps…

]]> http://techrights.org/2010/09/24/on-swpats-and-buying-arm-holdings/comment-page-1/#comment-100618 Sat, 25 Sep 2010 10:08:52 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=39443#comment-100618 It is worth remembering another excellent technology was destroyed very in this manner to serve the needs of the Microsoft-Intel oligarchy. I am speaking of the Dec Alpha, a chip that could have made 64 bit computing already common-place a decade earlier and end continued extensions of the life of defective Intel design architectures.

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