[rescue] Total corporate madness (

[Phil Stracchino]

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 08:37:28PM +0300, Meelis Roos wrote:
> Looks like Intel wants to specifically make proprietary
> interfaces ot profit from them, and the users suffer. And they see it as
> normal because they haven't seen better solutions.

This is how Intel does business.  If they invent a proprietary
interface, they can make money licensing it, or refuse to license it to
competitors in order to nobble them, and brandish their legal department
at companies that clone it, reverse-engineer it or develop a compatible
interface white-room.  If they used *STANDARDS*, they couldn't do that.

You have to remember that Intel thinks with its legal department.


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