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Cresho

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The End Is Near....drm
« 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

all usa hardware manufacturers are heading towards this direction.  So were does this leave linux?
« Last Edit: September 02, 2005, 09:22:15 pm by Cresho »
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The End Is Near....drm
« Reply #1 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

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.
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