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MS has money, which most people accept. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:AMD_K5_PR166_Front.jpg https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wi

by Create 15y ago

MS has money, which most people accept. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:AMD_K5_PR166_Front.jpg https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:AMD_K5_P... btw: there is a story about a company committed to Open stuff (Linux, Qt), just to [d|b]itch it.

sitkack 15y ago
We are nearly in a post MS reality. It is like 1988 all over again. DR Dos, DESQview, GEOS they are all back in way with iOS, Android (which oddly enough is more Newton influenced than iOS). The Win95 logo on a K5 doesn't bother me, Nokia doing really stupid stuff is indicative that they didn't have any solid competition for a great long while and went batshit insane. I had reports from Finnish friends that claimed that Nokia acted like they owned the whole damn country and make or break any law it pleased. When that kind of hubris implodes you best not be standing too close. They could have made a tidy sum selling well built yet simple Android powered phones to the worlds bottom 2 Billion People while attacking the verticals underserved by Nextel and Blackberry's gaffs. HTC owns the mainstream sexy-as-hell phone market. I would not try or want to compete with HTC. AMD is above all this buffoonery, they are about to license their IP and throw it to the wind. And ARM might just end up managing the portfolio.