Re: Seriously, it's too bad that monopolies are the only way standards ever get created. We should all thank, for instance, MS, for creating such an open platform and transparent APIs, protocols, and document formats.
You don't seriously believe that this is a bad thing, do you...? Remember the days before DirectX, for example? Yeah, Dos games under various incompatible loader routines without a single driver model was paradise. (just kidding)
Re: DAMN AMD and their multiple small and incompatible standards! Someone should teach them a lesson...
I support the standards that AMD drives, or at least tries to drive. Even the ones that failed were successful in getting the larger companies to respond with something better. AMD has a limited hit rate in getting ecosystems built in the industry, but if they spearhead a project that directly causes Intel to respond with something better (like the the way Hypertransport spurred development of PCI-Express), then I'm all for it. I remember Intel fiddling with high speed serial links in 1998, but very little came of it until AMD started garnering support for HTT. A few months later, Intel had a PCI-Express spec ready for PCI-SIG. Thanks, AMD! |
