Intel (was Re:GUI)

[James Knott]

William Park wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 03:55:53PM -0500, Henry Spencer wrote:
> 
>>On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, William Park wrote:
>>
>>>It's quite amusing to see all these cheap shots directed at
>>>Microsoft, while leaving the hardware players (ie. Intel, IBM)
>>>alone.  Whether it's OS/2, Windows, DOS, or Linux, they're all
>>>running on Intel CPU.
>>
>>Speak for yourself.  Here they're running on AMD CPUs, plus a few
>>other flavors.  (There are two or three Intel CPUs around, but they're
>>all in machines that I got secondhand at bargain prices, and hence
>>wasn't choosy about.)
> 
> 
> This is borderline amateurish.  Intel gets royalty, for every AMD sold.
> This is no different from IBM getting residual royalty for whatever
> patents that they have on IC, BIOS, resistor, capacitor, Surface-mount
> technology, PCB tech, etc.  You may buy motherboard made in Taiwan, but
> they had to licence from someone because they didn't do the fundamental
> research themselves.

While Intel designs and sells MBs, they aren't the only ones with that 
capability.  I don't think you mentioned anything they'd have a patent on.

> 
> Before Linux, there was Coherent (I bought a copy).  But, they decided
> to shoot themselves in the head.  Live and let die, as they say.
> 


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