Posted on 12/24/2006 11:15:27 PM PST by Petronski
(shrug) I'm still running Win2k. I plan on sticking with it until EOL at 2010 at the earliest, and I plan on moving to ReactOS when necessary.
Those are some pretty convincing links. Perhaps you could eggsplain why the bent one tried to take Gates down? Thnx IA.
I don't like the Linux GPL/LGPL communist virus license any more than the lefty funding MS whorehouse. And we'll keep anything except Linux around for development testing--even Windows.
"Linux will gain more points and start climb by late 2007 as a better software."
I've been hearing that nonsense for the last 10 years.
My Windows XT system just automatically downloaded the new Window Media Player v11. It is in the new Vista format. None of my music files, all of which were legitimatly ripped from my personal CDs or purchased online from places like Wal-Mart, would play. Fortunately, Microsoft provided an easy way to roll back to the old version that was not so picky.
" Gutmann's report runs to 6,000 words and contains hardly any FSF-style juvenile invective. "
well I sure won't be reading it then.
Merry Christmas everyone, even the techy types
Haha said the clown
What was the message that was given when you tried to play them?
To think that Bill Gates greedily lusted after all those billions of dollars from consumers and got them. That he went for the jugular in business. All so he could blow his wad on dubious AIDS projects and other hokum.
He is legacy hunting same as Bill Clinton and just as pathetic
bump
The one major setback for the market to work it's forces on MS? Competition. I don't believe that Linux is at a level where it can provide a viable alternative to MS just yet. If it can, I sure haven't heard about it.
That being said, I'm perfectly happy with my current functioning MS OS version. It gets me where I need to be and does what I need it to do. When I started experiencing performance issues with some of my software, I expanded my RAM to 2gb and those issues vanished.
So really, the only way I could be compelled to buy Vista is if MS completely shuts down support for my current OS. Wouldn't stop me from using it, but eventually most technology would move on and I'd be tempted to upgrade. I think that's where most people are in this debate.
And I don't put it beyond MS to drop support for older OS's sooner to push their new product. Who's going to stop them by cutting into their sales to stop them?
Perhaps this will result in even more efforts to push Linux so that it becomes the viable alternative the market needs for true competition.
Either way, I'll sit back and watch. I've got the popcorn, y'all!
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OUR FREEPER PALS!
Have to wonder if this isnt the monopolistic music industry pushing this and not microsoft.
Thanks for the info in that post. My thinking on this note is the (black) market will develop a means to get around device driven protection. We'll see a campaign similar to what happened with the recent CD/DVD protection debacles. It should prove quite entertaining, IMHO.
If Vista is to play HD content it has to have DRM, it's the law.
DRM was thought up and promoted by the entertainment industry. They lobbied it into law. Thank your representatives.
Next time, I'm buying a Mac. I've heard they are much easier to use, and more reliable.
bump for later. thanks for the post.
ping
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