SuperLinux Encyclopedia - Hall of Shame

• AMD prints the M$ flag logo on its CPUs.
• Digital Equipment Company is very tight with M$ now. Has been on the NT bandwagon for several years.
• Hewlett Packard has become increasingly M$-centric with their consumer products. I've liked HP since I drooled over the HP-35 calculator announcement around 1970 and eventually bought an HP-45. But I recently choose an Epson printer; they at least are compatible with Apple computers and publish their printer interface language. Anyone know if HP publishes theirs?
• Intel:
  • Intel seems to have done well at advancing the state of the art while maintaining backward compatibility with their initial design which was probably the worst of the early contenders. The main complaint here has been high prices which have only come down fast with the recent competition from AMD and Cyrix. Also, I've seen allegations that they have intentionally slowed-down fast processors to protect prices at the high-end. Also, their "Intel Inside" campain, while probably legal, seems very nasty. See "bully".
  • Article on Intel's Branding Program
  • FACE Intel (not so nice info about Intel as an employer)
  • Inside Intell (info Intel isn't proud of)
  • Intel's Prosecution of Randal Schwartz (of Perl fame; with info on Legal Defense Fund)
• Juno Has free e-mail. M$ users only and "?"-type "'". Send nastigram.
• Key Recovery Alliance (KRA); Promotes infrastructure for gov. access to private encrypted data.
• Micro$oft
• NeoMagic laptop chipsets reportedly won't release hardware specs; see here for chip users.
• Rhino - NURBS modeling in Microsoft Windows [said to require W95 or WNT]
  Home page had (April 1998) this: "Rhino will not be ported to any other operating systems."
• Why cooperation with RMS is impossible (audio I haven't heard)
• TBTF Exclusionary Sites Hall of Shame
• Questions not to ask on linux-kernel (discourages bad articles (and all other participation?) by insults and a display of arrogance)

Sites that block Linux users:

• Infobeads

Sites that allow only M$IE users to certain information:

• (none remembered)

Sites that have been shut down or threatened by Bullies:

• Java Invaders (free game from Slashdot?; now unavailable; with letter alledgely from Sun Microsystems, Inc.)
• Toys R Us bullied Gus Lopez into closing his www.toysrgus.com site after several years of operation.
• Intel Secrets (x86.org by Robert Collins in battle with Intel)

Misc Examples of Bullying and other Shameful Behaviour:

• A guy has legal trouble with employer because he won't give them his idea.
• 3dfx sicks their lawyers on a guy for trying to make Glide to work with non-3dfx cards.

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