I can get a discount on MS software for being a U of Wis system student, but the cheapest editions run for $81. I don't have $81 to spare--for the reasons I listed above. That is not funny.
You may speak for yourself, but you sure aren't speaking for Richard Stallman, "the father" of your free software movement. His stated goal is to make all software free, listed as his quote "ultimate goal" on some of his websites.
If you read a lot of our posts, you find that not a lot of us have a high opinion of RMS. I don't either. Quit trying to paint a "Guilty by Association" on all of us.
I dare you to name five of us here who've tacitly supported RMS on any of these OSS threads within the past six months. You can't.
I don't know why I'm continuing to give my time to this thread with you--it's pretty clear that you're trying to promote MS on our threads by blasting OSS with sham accusations (and then subsequently denying and dancing around our posts)--in short, with nothing new to say in the past few months.
There is no "if" to it. They have been setting record profits for several years in a row now. Their latest quarter, that just announced last week, was yet another record. It's time for you to deal with it, since it's been happening for consecutive years but you're obviously still stuck in denial.
Wow. All I'm going to say is that this one's a keeper for the books. N3WBI3--what you say?
No it doesn't, they're not related, MS has never mentioned the US Cert or NVD stats that I know of, check their get the facts website for yourself. I appreciate you being cordial, it's rare from your "community", but you are flat out wrong on every point you've attempted to make, all of which are easily verifiable.
Didn't we go through this a few months ago, especially when I explicitly chastised you for not being able to prove your points. That's where my evidence comes in. Reread those posts--by all of us.
You seem to have a really tough time admitting you're wrong, which is a serious problem for you, since you're never right.
http://www.electricnews.net/news.html?code=9665775
Profits climb at Microsoft
Friday, January 27 2006
The software giant reported net income of $3.65 billion, or $0.34 per share, in its fiscal second quarter ended 31 December, compared to $3.46 billion, or $0.32 per share, a year earlier.
The Redmond-based giant reported sales of $11.84 billion, up from sales of $10.82 billion in the year-earlier period.