Masking as Unknown Lamer while he is in fact very well known lamer. Please stop pimping your blog Florian. Nobody cares about your spin.

Intel got it's hands tied and they will continue making x86 to the rest of their lives cause they stuck in Catch 22 with lazy Microsoft. Case in point: Microsoft dumped Itanium recently. That is how they treat partners. Intel realizes that Microsoft will be their undoing if they stay beholden to them, so they are contributing to FLOSS very extensively. Microsoft got a lot more in that partnership. Just look at market caps of two companies.

When people like you cry about dollar sign, I have strong urge to never again write M$ without dollar sign. So if you are trying to save Micro$soft from brand dilution, you are going to make Streisand effect.

Because you are MSFT fanboy and can't take criticism of your bellowed company. That is only explanation when someone disparage people for saying M$.

Yes, it seems you are right. It has it has pulseaudio and few other pieces of Free Software. But it is still highly proprietary. Much like OS X.

It is not. All layers above kernel are proprietary. MeeGo only mobile GNU/Linux.

Most crazy corporate-praising comments on internet are written by corporate sales droids and PR agents.

Intel puts DRM in their CPUs, so I will be pretty vocal against Intel CPUs, TYVM.

They have competition from ARM chips. No need to buy anything from Intel unless you are Microsoft junkie. And if you are Chinese are coming with Godson MIPS chips that have x86 emulation acceleration with QEMU. Also AMD bulldozer is around the corner.

Why should I be fixing and working around new CPU? Just don't buy anything from Intel, buy DRM-Free CPUs until we are left without any.

Isn't Sandy Bridge that Intel's DRMed CPU? 'Nuff said, waiting Bulldozer or 64-bit ARM chips.

Also http://sfconservancy.org/

It's not software that's free, it's you.

Not true. For those whose hardware is supported, it is a win. They get their Freedom and easier to debug kernel, while they lose nothing. Everybody (well, everybody who wants and knows what he's doing) needs to give a try to Linux-libre kernel because there is no reason whatsoever to have non-libre kernel installed if your hardware works fine with libre one. I had same attitude like you until I tried 100% free distro, but it turned out to work flawlessly on most of my computers. So I wondered why I didn't try earlier. I didn't because some dude like you (who probably never tried) told me that no new hardware will work and that only nut-cases use that. But it turned out that most of new stuff is supported. You don't know until you try. So stop with negativity and use what you like.

Red Hat's price right now would be north of $9bn. And they are software-only company, while in fact they don't own _any_ software. So just their bussiness model, employees, and brand are worth that much. Sun sold everything for 5.6bn. I also don't like to mesure things in $, but I realize that some number of people (biger number than I would like) take $ as only metric for everything. So I like the fact that Free Software wins even by that crooked metric.