[ale] [Fwd: [Am-info] Advanced Micro Devices willinclude Microsoft's Palladium]

[Ryan]

On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 15:53, Joseph A Knapka wrote:
> Geoffrey wrote:
> > Ryan wrote:
> > 
> >> Buy CPUs before this technology is integrated ;) I think
> >> 2GHZ CPUs are more than enough to power Linux workstations
> >> for a good long time.
> > 
> > 
> > Yeah, but what do you do down the road when you need that 300 terrahertz 
> > processor to digitize your daughter, transport her to school over the 
> > internet and undigitize her??
> 
> I will *not* be transmitting my digitized daughter via *any*
> Microsoft or "Microsoft-approved" hardware or software, thanks
> anyway. If it comes to that, she can be homeschooled.
> 

I imagine that Linux (or any Open Source OPerating System) will be
defiant of any chip that tries to impede on users privacy.



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