On 2/5/07, John Dammeyer wrote: > It's far more serious then that. Check out: > > http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html > > Imagine you are a graphics board manufacturer like ATI. Your newest > greatest board has the stuff in it that's needed to make Vista work. And > you've signed a non-disclosure with Microsoft in order to make it licensed > to work with Vista -- otherwise it's not authorized and can't run in hi-res > mode or HD video etc. under Vista; death knell for your company if you > don't do it because someone else will and Windows Vista based machines will > be a huge market. If the documentation is all true Windows Vista or HD video will die. Linux will overtake Windows Vista very soon, Wow... Will I believe it? No... By the way, take a look at this: http://kerneltrap.org/node/7636 The Linux kernel community is offering all companies free Linux driver development. Even NDA can be accommodated. Very good initiatives. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist