Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 5th Jun 2005 22:11 UTC
After News.com's Friday report that Apple is moving to Intel/x86, the respected publication Wall Street Journal and now NYTimes threw their reputation behind the rumor. Many people still remain skeptical, but I personally believe that the time is right for Apple to switch to x86-64, for two main reasons:
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I couldn't really care 2c if Apple moves to the x86 platform - but if they want to use GPL'd stuff then they sure as hell better offer the src code and provide any improvements back to the community and not try and hide them by obscurity.
Apple will offer locked in specially built PC hardware that'll have modified bios and run OS X on x86-64. It will also have heavy drm and palladium built into the bios. No thanks, i'll pass. TCPA is utterly evil and should have long been banned by the US government for being an infringement of basic rights and privacy. The only reason it isn't is because Bush jr. is a paranoid hick and wants to know what *every* single individual is doing - ie. spy on them in his 'war on terrorism' bullshit - this will offer him a way of doing so.
Apple, Intel, AMD, Microsoft have long since been big supports of TCPA for a variety of reasons - vendor lock in being the big one. Spying on your customers 'habits' being the other.
Most people haven't even heard of TCPA, let alone know what it means, and the majority couldn't give a shit. That's rather worrying, because it means due to others stupidity or ignorance (or both!) i'm gonna get stuck with a technology that is evil. I'm not impressed with Linus and others working on Linux to become TCPA compliant either. So, in the end, it might be GNU Hurd for me (and I suspect many others) who don't want to play the modern game. Either that or i'll just stop using a computer at home - I did it before and I can do it again!
Dave