On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 05:27, Edward Guldemond wrote: > On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 01:13:33PM +0300, Chavo wrote: > > Does this mean that in future if I desire to buy intel hardware and use it > > with open-source software such as Debian, the hardware would prevent me from > > doing this or open-source software would be deteriorated in its performance. > > I am curious because am a dedicated open-source fan and user if not a > > programer or developer. > > If it ever comes down to this, I will break my lifetime record of never > buying a PowerPC machine. But seriously...
If this does come about, then I buy the fastest dual-Hammer PCs I can find. This is presuming that, in their infancy, even if the Hammers do have DRM hooks, DRM can be disabled at the OS level by Linux. By then, if I can't be satisfied by home PCs that have 2 ~3GHz dual-Hammers, each w/ +1GB RAM and a TB or more of disk space (320GB Serial ATA HDDs will be shipping by then), then shame on me. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | "What other evidence do you have that they are terrorists, | | other than that they trained in these camps?" | | 17-Sep-2002 Katie Couric to an FBI agent regarding the 5 | | men arrested near Buffalo NY | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
