Intel cuts Atom chips, basically giving up on the smartphone and tablet markets

Re:Intel cuts Atom chips, basically giving up on the smartph... by marssaxman on Friday April 29, 2016 @11:49PM (#11600251)

I suppose we have different ideas about what "open" means. In my view, Linux and computing in general have gotten where they are largely despite Intel's efforts at rent-extraction.

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Re:Intel cuts Atom chips, basically giving up on the smartph... by pjmlp on Saturday April 30, 2016 @08:20AM (#11601406)

If it wasn't for the likes of IBM and Intel, with Linux developers on their payroll, even though they also do lots of patents and closed source stuff, GNU would still be looking for a kernel.

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Re:Intel cuts Atom chips, basically giving up on the smartph... by pyre on Saturday April 30, 2016 @11:11AM (#11601974)

> GNU would still be looking for a kernel.

Linux came about before there was commercial interest. Linux (or GNU/Linux if you will) would have existed. Whether it would be in the same place it is today is another story.

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Re:Intel cuts Atom chips, basically giving up on the smartph... by pjmlp on Saturday April 30, 2016 @12:05PM (#11602230)

I was there. We just wanted to have a free UNIX clone at home, to be able to do the work from there instead of expensive connections over the phone line to corporate and university servers.

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Re:Intel cuts Atom chips, basically giving up on the smartph... by kayamon on Monday May 02, 2016 @11:46PM (#11617753)

If that was all you wanted, you'd still be running MIMIX.

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Re:Intel cuts Atom chips, basically giving up on the smartph... by scholia on Saturday April 30, 2016 @07:52AM (#11601349)

Wintel provided the mass market that enabled the economies of scale that drove down prices. Linux has piggybacked on that.

Linux was written for the 386....

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