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Originally Posted by qgil View Post
R-R, if you look at TI, Marvel, Qualcomm, Imagination, ARM and etc you will see that even if the visible business is to sell hardware, there is also business around drivers, patents, specifications, particular implementations...

It's a complicated world and, indeed, it's changing. The push of Intel to mobile hardware is part of that change as well, since they come with a different approach.
Indeed, the hardware level is a different world. As to Intel, they are embracing open source in several areas (and I think the Nokia/Intel cooperation will be a big ++ for advancing handheld computing), but I don't know that they are doing so in the hw adaptation layer (If they are). Not a criticism of Intel at all, it just seems that your comment implied that (or does "different approach" mean something else?)
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