Re: Re: Re: intro

[dcr@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dan C. Rinnert)]

Kragen \ Skewed\  Sitaker,kragen@dnaco.net,Internet writes:
>If these become common enough, we *can* have a GNU processor architecture.
>Then we just need to loosen intellectual-property restrictions enough that
>it's legal for people other than Intel to make CPUs.

I'm not sure I follow what you're saying.  It *is* legal for people other
than Intel to make CPUs.  AMD, Cyrix, IBM and Motorola are among the
non-Intel alternatives.  And, in my experience, the non-Intel CPUs are often
the better ones.