Posted on 05/14/2007 7:28:15 PM PDT by mylife
Oh, and I have bought 3.1.1, windows 95,98,ME, and finally XT.
Everything between 3.1.1. and XT has been a nightmare.
Now the Ahole wants to tell me I cant play an mp3 on the computer in the den because I downloaded it for a fee on the PC in the family room. this digital rights stuff is computer fascism
Screw that!! MS sucks
me 2.
i’ll be doing something,
and i notice that microsnot wants permission to go out of the zone alarm and tattle to bill gates what i’m doing.
He sucks.
and he is going down
I never respond to the “send a report” stuff.
They come up when I use “firefox” or some other prog that MS doesnt “own”
I know the asshat is using the info to thwart the competition
yeah i bought those, except vista.
and i was a real sucker for windows me—junk.
i’m due to get a california settlement of $100.00 from microsoft from a class action suit.
the $100.00 can be applied to new pc hard and softwares but i’m wondering if it’s worth it to buy more ms. hafta see.
Try ubuntu 7.04 its free
Its not quite there but the pressure is on Microsoft
95,98 and ME were HORRIBLE
ok.
i’ll try it.
but i get confused. what happened to red hat etc etc etc. ?
linux’ come and go, come and go.
Bluffing is a broad term. I’m sure there is something there, but good luck in actually getting at what it is. Much better for Microsoft to be vague for as long as possible and scare other businesses away from the use of anything other than windows over possible litigation over.
Blackmail and intimidation, it’s the Microsoft business model ;)
Well open source is always morphing.
Red hat sells a particular version of code and what they really sell is support for that code.
Ubuntu is free and the support is free. You may or not like it, but it pretty impressive and its free.
I have to admit Im using XP at the moment, but I am this ‘ ‘ close to saying goodbye forever to microsoft
You got that right
ok, i’ll try ubuntu. thanks.
i’m going to bed now. me tired.
Linux is constantly changing.
Its coming of age though. its about to become a “standard”
me tired too
Cya
Only the most dim rate SCO's credibility at above zero. (What are the Freeper manners, I'm not naming any posters specifically, should I ping them? No need, they'll be along shortly to identify themselves.)
MS following the exact same path won't work. Even PHBs know they've seen this particular line of BS before.
If your intimidation is so transparent even an MBA can see it, you're done, stick a fork in the effort.
Wow!/s
You are trying too hard ~ sometimes the lines blur. In this case the “operating instructions that make a machine operate” could differ, but it’s the operation of the machine that makes the difference ~ but that wasn’t the point I was making anyway. Whatever the standards of evidence might be in a court of law, I suggested that the items Microsoft is complaining about might well be code for code IDENTICAL ~ and that would satisfy all of us that there could have been some hanky-panky (although probably not a court of law if it had a different standard).
OK. While I agree that there *may* possibly be identical code, the next question would be "in which direction was the copying done?" The SCO case proved that while SCO claimed infringement, and showed a little code, it was proved that the SCO code was newer than the Linux code--hence it was *SCO* that was copying from the GPL code.
With patents, it doesn't really matter who wrote it first--only who owns the patent. So the next step would be to determine if the patent is valid--and there are many who believe that a lot of MS' patents are not valid.
So any case MS would bring will be an interesting case study in all this and the finer points of patent law.
No doubt Microsoft intends to plumb the depths eh!
Actually, from this article, it appears the comments were made to force companies into more Novell-like deals with MS.
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