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File Extensions And Monopolies

A_Non_Moose sent us an article from Salon that talks about how file extensions are one of the tools used by Microsoft to extend their mind and market share. It's a very simple idea but its honestly something I'd never thought about. Definitely worth a read, and a few neurons to realize how its really the simplest of things that will guarantee that this monopoly isn't stopped even if Microsoft's deep pockets didn't let them buy the law.

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  1. FP bitches by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    bitches

  2. I have a monopoly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    on 1st p0sts

    1. Re:I have a monopoly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      and 190th p0sts. so there

  3. Re:*NIX needs .vbs by Petrol · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ummm... OT i know, but does this mean you could code a perl necklace into your Anna Kounikova pic? ::grin::

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  4. slashdot moderators have "Faith of the Heart" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic



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    It's been a long road....

  5. Re:This is silly... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's not rediculous.

    Right. It's ridiculous. HTH. Mm, rock against ass. Me, lame? Eff.

  6. Re:How I fixed it by GaCRuX · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ROTFLMAO! =)

    wtf is with the moderation? that should be "funny"

    btw: you can actually get emacs for winblows?

  7. Re:Windows 3.1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    works, but just not very intuitively.

    You are a complete moron. We said that it works, you say "NO IT DOESN'T". We point out that it works still yet again, you state "NOT INTUITIVELY!".

    Kindly shut the fuck up.

  8. It works in W2k by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And you are a fucking dolt.

  9. Re:Its not just MS . . . by Tarpan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    [...] but if you view a naked PNG, Quicktime will scale it to fit in the window.[...]

    You shouldn't be looking at such big pr0n images :)

  10. Re:file extention sabotage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I don't think he has a sense of humor...