Re: Linux in Mondays NY Times
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
8 Jul 1998 23:29:37 GMT
Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980708084425.1103A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>
By author: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> 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.
>
Uhm, yeah. Whatever. Check your timetable again.
-hpa
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