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China beware the big IT capitalist Microsoft
ITWire ^ | 20 April 2006 | Stan Beer

Posted on 04/20/2006 9:00:14 AM PDT by ShadowAce

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To: Golden Eagle
Then why do they provide products and support other operating systems, like Office for Mac and paid support for Linux now?

Because there's money in it, DUH! MS Office has a huge marketshare for Mac office apps.

41 posted on 04/21/2006 8:49:21 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: Golden Eagle
Stallman (who licenses 80 percent of open source) ... Oh, my mistake, it may only be around 75%. 80% was what antiRepublican said he thought it was.

You said 75%, I believe based on the distribution of projects at SourceForge. Now for the English lesson:

Main Entry: license
Function: transitive verb
1 a : to issue a license to b : to permit or authorize especially by formal license
2 : to give permission or consent to

Stallman/FSF holds the copyright to a relatively small number of open source projects (The FSF developer server shows 302 official GNU software titles, and among those there is a high likelihood that Stallman/FSF owns the copyright). Stallman can only license those projects. Other projects are licensed by their respective copyright holders.

42 posted on 04/21/2006 8:59:28 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat
Now for the English lesson:

Aww--I was gonna string him along for a little more. LOL!

43 posted on 04/21/2006 9:01:09 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: ShadowAce

There's nothing funny about you trying to protect radical leftists like Stallman. ~75% of all open source uses his license, which is based on his "manifesto", whether you want to keep defending him and the Chinese from the evil capitalists or not.


44 posted on 04/21/2006 9:11:30 AM PDT by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle
...~75% of all open source uses his license,..

Hey--you got it correct on the first post after the lesson. I'm impressed.

45 posted on 04/21/2006 9:14:30 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Golden Eagle
There's nothing funny about you trying to protect radical leftists like Stallman.

Link to a specific post that shows I "protect", defend, or agree with Stallman. HINT: You can't do it because I haven't.

You owe me yet another apology for defamation.

46 posted on 04/21/2006 9:18:32 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: ShadowAce

Obviously you just did, just like always. Your claim you don't realize what you're doing and are somehow sleepwalking is even more sinister.


47 posted on 04/21/2006 9:21:50 AM PDT by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle
Obviously you just did,

Where? Which post?

48 posted on 04/21/2006 9:23:27 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: ShadowAce

Take your pick shadowdude. The only person you're fooling is yourself.


49 posted on 04/21/2006 9:50:08 AM PDT by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle

That's what I thought--for all your blustering and accusing, you can't back up anything you say.


50 posted on 04/21/2006 9:51:55 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Golden Eagle
Look at your own profile page, an outright tribute to leftists. Stallman (who licenses 80 percent of open source) is a leftist you boast, the DNC loves Linux you like to remind everyone, Red Hat let's those lovely Chinese rename it to Red Flag, all for free, of course, on and on.

Wow you cant really be that obtuse..

51 posted on 04/21/2006 10:07:37 AM PDT by N3WBI3 (If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
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To: ShadowAce

lol


52 posted on 04/21/2006 10:09:07 AM PDT by N3WBI3 (If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
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To: N3WBI3

I'm simply pointing out some of the leftist causes you're so proud of you list them on your profile page. If you ever decide to instead join me in condemning them... Uh, nevermind, since you seem sworn to defend them at all costs.


53 posted on 04/21/2006 10:49:07 AM PDT by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle
No, you're quoting a the troll talking points you use as my opinions.. If your too obtuse to understand 'Official OSS thread troll report card' followed by statements you make all the time its no wonder you get ripped up so badly on all these threads..
54 posted on 04/21/2006 10:59:20 AM PDT by N3WBI3 (If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
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To: Golden Eagle
Red Hat let's those lovely Chinese rename it to Red Flag

So they can run their supercomputers on it. I know it's true, because GE told me so!

BTW, why is it your business to tell someone else what he can or cannot do with his copyrighted works? Are you the copyright god? Red Hat is not only happy to let them, but they're making loads of money doing it.

55 posted on 04/21/2006 12:34:17 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: Golden Eagle; N3WBI3
I'm simply pointing out some of the leftist causes you're so proud of you list them on your profile page

Looking ..... can't find ... Oh wait, he's an MCSE -- leftist!

56 posted on 04/21/2006 12:36:58 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: N3WBI3

You can call them whatever you want, but they are obviously leftists and leftist causes you support. Unashamedly, and endlessly.


57 posted on 04/21/2006 12:37:57 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
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To: antiRepublicrat

Nobody is making loads of money off Linux, they're making peanuts compared to what Unix previously brought in. And that big government software you love so much, you know the core supercomputer software NASA gave away to every communist country, for free? We don't even get a thanks for that, but you'd gladly have our tax dollars build even more stuff to give away if you could.


58 posted on 04/21/2006 12:43:05 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
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To: antiRepublicrat

MCSE? LOL, that guy has been running around for months claiming all Windows 2000 support already ended, when the truth is we'll keep getting security patches till 2010! The only thing that guy has any believable credentials in are BS.


59 posted on 04/21/2006 12:47:00 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle
MCSE? LOL, that guy has been running around for months claiming all Windows 2000 support already ended

Easy mistake, depending on clarification of meaning. Mainstream support for all versions of Windows 2000 was retired last year for the United States. This is a fact you cannot dispute.

60 posted on 04/21/2006 1:34:58 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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