Is any computing platform entirely free ? Is any computer processor perfect ? I'd like to know what processors the OpenBSD developers prefer to use.
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 12:40 PM, ropers <rop...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 9 September 2011 10:51, Zeljko Jovanovic <zelj...@tesla.rcub.bg.ac.rs> > wrote: > > They payed a fee to MIPS Technologies only as a sign of good will (and > they > > didn't want press to write (lie) about some patent nonsense associated > with > > their product). Officialy, the explanation is that that gives them right > to > > use the MIPS-compatible labeling. > > Well, you see, that's precisely what has me worried. (What, me worry? > Yes, me worry.) > > I'd like to call this the MS-SCO manoeuvre: > > "Major company X paid me to 'license' this, therefore I really own > exclusive rights to this (otherwise why would they have paid me), and > therefore you, entity Y, have to pay me too."
