On 01.07.2007 21:10, Georg Acher wrote:
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 08:43:04PM +0200, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
If only the hardware vendors where as "united" as the movie-industry.
HDCP was invented by Intel, Silicon Image holds a lot of patents on DVI and HDMI. As long as they can sell chips and licenses, they don't care about the consumer, looks quite united to me ;-)
That's the "back-stabbing"-part i meant.
You can be certain that there is someone to pick up a knife laying around.
Here is another example of such a "knife" thing from today: http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/07/01/0221213.shtml
They invented it because they think that someone will want it (and most probably someone will), just the same as Intel/Silicon Image.
Another word would be: "anticipatory obedience" ("vorauseilender Gehorsam" (translated by dict.leo.org))
Bis denn