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[ILUG] Linux community insulted by Intel with P4

[ILUG] Linux community insulted by Intel with P4

John P . Looney john at antefacto.com
Thu Dec 14 14:57:23 GMT 2000


On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 02:45:55PM -0000, Noel Carrol mentioned:
> Indeed!  One article I read had Intel saying that the information was
> released to all relevant persons in good time.  In any case its a patchable
> issue and I believe those exact patches are being prepared, and are even
> avalilable in some cases, as we speak.

 I think the problem being that they didn't know who the relevant people
were, and told the wrong person. Either way, a machine barfing because it
didn't know about the CPUID's is strange...

Kate

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 When I say 'free', I mean 'free': free from bond, of chain or command: 
to go where you will, even to Mordor, Saruman, if you desire. " 
    -- Gandalf, paraphrasing the choice between Free and Non-free software




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