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Title: The End Is Near....drm
Post by: Cresho on September 02, 2005, 09:21:05 pm

One of my brothers emailed me with this information.  It is almost common knowledge that the end is near!  where does this leave us linux users?

here is the link.

http://news.com.com/Hollywood%2C+Microsoft...393.html?tag=nl (http://news.com.com/Hollywood%2C+Microsoft+align+on+new+Windows/2100-1025_3-5844393.html?tag=nl)

all usa hardware manufacturers are heading towards this direction.  So were does this leave linux?

Title: The End Is Near....drm
Post by: adf on September 02, 2005, 10:27:46 pm

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One of my brothers emailed me with this information.  It is almost common knowledge that the end is near!  where does this leave us linux users?

here is the link.

http://news.com.com/Hollywood%2C+Microsoft...393.html?tag=nl (http://news.com.com/Hollywood%2C+Microsoft+align+on+new+Windows/2100-1025_3-5844393.html?tag=nl)

all usa hardware manufacturers are heading towards this direction.  So were does this leave linux?
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It leaves us with asian hardware.....  and a growing user population.

Still... I'd be surprised to see this stuff from Sun or IBM.  
MS/Intel.... particularly ms..are often a different story.
Running AMD chips on an asian motherboard is scarcely a hardship. If we lose some pieces of software living legally in us/eu repositories, there are other options. I doubt it will come to this, though.