Ronald G Minnich and vanishing vendor interest

Ronald G Minnich and vanishing vendor interest

Posted Feb 7, 2007 20:33 UTC (Wed) by ebirdie (subscriber, #512)
Parent article: Second batch of FOSDEM interviews

Ronald G Minnich's interview is interesting in another respect as well. Here it appears again that hardware vendors have pulled out their support in recent years. Why?

Here is just two articles for some background:
<http://penguinppc.org/news/2006/05/02/xbox_360_history>
<http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/12/a_cost_anal...>

There has been comments on LWN.net as well that vendors of graphic gear has turned over to closed and unresponsive.

The rules of the game has clearly changed and hardware vendors seem to have chosen their side. Sorry, but I tend to be a bit pessimistic here, but is the era of PC as open and common hardware platform soon gone? The signs are there. I wish OLPC and be there many similar hardware platforms to come, what are designed open from ground up and, say, uninteresting and unreachable to the closing party.

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