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Can Open Source Save Hardware?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the envelopes-that-need-pushing dept.

Culexus writes "Tom's Hardware has a interesting story about Open Source saving the hardware industry. Pretty good read all in all. Hopefully chip makers and vendors won't have to bend to the iron might of Microsoft any longer." Some good comments on how early-adopters and enthusiasts are being marginalized by the industry, too.

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  1. Is the link wrong? by melonman · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Does the article have anything to do with open source? Unless I'm missing something, it's about how games now get ported from PCs to games machines and back. Games machines tend to be even more proprietary than PCs running MS, and none of this is exactly new: I remember Elite being ported from the BBC Micro to DOS 20-odd years ago. And does anyone out there believe, even in their dreams, that Linux games are currently a driving force in the industry?

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