Intel to cut Linux out of the content market?!

[Chanchao]

Hello Ezra,

Thursday, July 21, 2005, 1:12:46 PM, you wrote:

ET> Mayday ?
ET> http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24638

Not at all. Companies are ALWAYS trying to find ways to lock people
into whatever it is they're selling. Lots of everyday stuff around you
is what it is because it was specifically designed to lock you into
something of their own and out of something else made by a competitor.

Yet nobody can force anyone to use a particular device, or format. All
companies do it. It's strange Microsoft always gets such a bad rep,
because Sony and Apple and Intel and Vodaphone and just about everyone
else are just as bad. Heck you can't buy a printer or a vacuum cleaner
without the thing being specifically designed to accept some
proprietary kind of consumable.

So Intel is making some widget thingy that doesn't run on Linux. Big
deal; When Toshiba or Sony or Apple make some media device it also
never runs (on) Linux, and Linux doesn't care. :)

And, the more you try to force people into something, the more the want
to be free..

Cheers,
Chanchao