> On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> > Worse that that. If you buy any Intel processor since the 8086, US$5.00
> > of the cost is a license fee paid to Micro$haft. Micro$haft claims
> > ownership to the "Intel Architecture", i.e., what used to be called
> > the "IBM-PC/AT". They "purchased" the rights to this design from IBM
> > sometime in the early '70s, waited about 10 years for major developments
> > to be made by Intel and others, then threatened a suit. The settlement
> > was a 5.00 per processor fee to be paid by the end-user.
>
> WHAT?! That's fucking outrageous. It's a fucking tax on CPUs, for Gawd
> sakes. No wonder Intel CPUs are so expensive. Has noone drawn the Dept of
> Justice's attention to this?! *fume*
Yes. Yes, the latest "Webcrawler" thingy was just a smoke-screen. The
Justice Department only intended to play around with something visible
so the good little consumers would get the warm and fuzzy feeling that
the government was helping to protect them.
>
> Fine, I'll buy an Alpha instead.
But will Compact continue to sell them? They purchased Digital to put
them out of business, not to sell Alphas.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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