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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (50970)	2/25/1999 1:48:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 1572335

Jim, What is this fellow smoking? Will someone tell him that people just want a free PC? There seems to be a rather large disconnect here, comparing a $900 PIII CPU with a free PC. It appears that the management of the Titanic Clipper company still can't see the iceberg. Scumbria

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (50970)	2/26/1999 2:03:00 AM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572335

The real reason for chip ID is to enforce ONE SOFTWARE COPY ON ONE CPU. The future of software distribution is over the internet. If you buy Office 200X over the internet, it will download a version that only works with your chip ID. Even if the original copy is not from the Internet, all maintenance and upgrades will be designed to work only with the chip ID associated with the original software, which must match the chip ID sent to the software supplier. If the Intel scheme is widespread, it will end the ability to buy one copy of software for your three computers. Privacy, schmivacy, who cares? But THAT I care about, plus the danger that web sites will relax their other safeguards because they think knowing someone's CPU ID makes the transaction "secure." Petz