Posted on 01/28/2009 8:21:42 AM PST by ShadowAce
I just finished loading KDE’s latest Linux CD. Microsoft can go pound Iranian sand.
I understand why a business like Microsoft would want to sell something like this, but why would any other business, let alone a consumer user, ever want to buy into it?
When I did my dissertation,
one Christian woman sent back the unfilled survey
with the elaborate explanation of how
COMPUTER=666 etc. etc. etc.
Maybe she was prophetic about satanic corporations involved in computers.
It does sound like they are trying to drive people away—until they get the hardware vendors’ buy-in. Then we’re all screwed.
I don’t even need to read much to know that this is alarmist crap. All a patent application means is that someone thought of the idea, and that Microsoft hopes to have the ability to prevent others from using this technology, or make them pay for the right to do so.
I could invent a way to torture cute little puppies, and a a patent doesn’t make it any easier for me to do such terrible things, it simply makes it harder for the rest of the nation.
I sincerely hope you are correct. However, I also have been watching them fail at litigating the competition out of business. Perhaps this is the next step.
So THIS is what the Tron remake is about!
Whoa! this is the material for class action, monopolistic infringement lawsuits.
Putting all computer functions under a banner of a mother motherboard metering system is very dangerous. Microsoft is too big, has too much control over computing.
Maybe Microsoft needs to be broken up like the phone companies were back in the 80’s?
I don’t see how they can call this original.
Big Blue has been leasing hardware and software for years, and even has the same “pay for what you use” as one of their pricing structures.
Microsoft is desperate to try to get into some kind of pay-for-maintenance mode, because the market for new machines and software is slowing down.
There will always be hardware entrepreneurs that will not require Microsoft.
Microsoft needs only to look in the mirror for the biggest single stupid marketing move ever made...Vista caused more people to abandon ship, driving customers to Apple and Linux by the millions. When retailers weren't allowed to continue to sell XP Pro with new computers, the market was effectively dead. Ask Circuit City how many PCs they sold since Vista was released.
BUMP
Ummmm. There is no Circuit City...
They would need an enforcement agency like Government....but we just elected a new guy ...hmm!
That was my point.
Thought so...
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