And that's where Intel screwed up. It could have devoted .001% of quarterly revenues to fund ten years of linux hardware compatibility testing and driver develo

And that's where Intel screwed up. It could have devoted .001% of quarterly revenues to fund ten years of linux hardware compatibility testing and driver development. It would have hedged against Microsoft in numerous ways: business dependence, forcing the hardware utilization Intel always accused Windows of ignoring, probably would have given them a functional beachhead in netbooks, mobile phones, and kept them abreast of other developments like ARM. Google could have also done this for pennies to hedge Microsoft. IBM could have used it to push back into consumer hardware. But the ship has sailed for Google with Android and ChromeOS. IBM is dying. Intel is the only one that is still has some market incentive.