Posted on 08/23/2005 4:10:05 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
IBM Woos the World's Geeks - Big Blue will let software developers in Brazil, Russia, India, and China use company products for free.
IBM announced an initiative Monday to encourage developers in emerging economies to work on the computing giant’s open standards technology, a computing framework for which hardware and software specifications are publicly available.
As part of the initiative, the Armonk, New York-based company said that for the first time, developers in Brazil, Russia, India, China—popularly known as BRIC countries—will get instant access to IBM’s hardware and software portfolio from their desktop at no charge.
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Exactly my point. In previous threads, every time you were confronted with facts and evidence, all you did was plug your ears, cover your eyes, hum loudly and claim to have seen nothing.
And you wonder why most everyone here thinks you're a walking joke. *snort*
ROFLAMO! That's hilarious, since everyone was agreeing this thread was so predictable, going along just like always. And take a look at it, me with my normal links to reputable sources about serious issues, and you and others shouting names and bolding fonts as your pitiful response to the fact attack. If you think you have a thread from anywhere that shows much of anything different, by all means whip it out and show us.
There-there little boy. Just go right on back to seeing Chicoms under every CD-ROM. Leave the work to the adults. Scoot along now...
It's obvious who is the adult here, take a look at this thread.
Gold Eagle Out.
"That's nice. But it doesn't matter what you wrote, I broadened it to include MS as an entity. Sorry if it through you off. Should I write it slower for you next time? =)"
No, maybe you should practice writing so other people can tell what you're talking about.
I referenced web browsers only. You mentioned "since 1995", which was when MS first started offering a browser. If you were talking about MS in general, perhaps you should have chosen an earlier dte, since MS was founded 20 years prior to that.
Ambiguity is the devil's volleyball.
And I didn't. I don't understand why that is confusing. Oh, that's right because you have no answer for it, so we'll just go around in circles as a way to avoid the whole point.
If you were talking about MS in general, perhaps you should have chosen an earlier dte
I was referencing the period after 1995 when people I knew, who were already jealous of MS, predicted the "fadware" would be gone by 2000, replaced by the far superior Macintosh.
, since MS was founded 20 years prior to that.
Thanks for the mini-history lesson, but that would be hard since in 1975 MS wasn't the dominant software, at that point, and people where not yet green with envy.
Ambiguity is the devil's volleyball.
Personally I like hockey, so this is fine with me.
ROTFLOLWTIME!
The duplicity here reeks..
Two more post and I would have won, I gave him too much credit... Lets start up the next round..
Truth: Actually it was originated by the son of a communist, GE just likes to go Biblical on him by holding him responsable for his fatehrs actions. He know this but uses whatever words get the most effect..
The duplicity here reeks..
Can you please provide an example of where I praised MS for giving software away for free to foreign companies?
You and GE have certainly excused them for it..
Or are you saying that we should boycoot MS because "Agreed. This is the slap-in-the-face to the US tactics that pi$$ me off."
Oh puhleaze. Kettle ...Black
No, I'm straight. =)
And again, please show me where MS is giving software away for free to foreign governments. If they are, I would seriously consider it. Though so far, I have not boycotted Linux for their policies and probably won't.
You just keep repeeating this with nothing to back it up.
All I know is Ill sleep better tonight knowing bill gates pocket is that much fatter after having sold away the secrecy of 97% of his source code..
We've been over this many times, it's an inaccurate statement, but if it helps you sleep at night feel free to use it.
Youre right MS sold code to Chinese communist, and IBM gave it... I guess it must be because IBM hates American and bill gates gets puppy dog eyes every time he sees an American flag.
If you cannot see the difference between selling your product in an open global market and giving away freebies to a foreign company, that you won't for Americans, then I guess the argument is moot.
Well you finally capitalized it, but still managed to mispell it. Maybe one of these days you'll get it right. Then again, maybe not.
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