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Microsoft Offers A Modified Settlement
inepom01 writes: "Just read a story here about Microsoft offering a different settlement proposal- this one would have two other companies join in on the foundation MS is establishing- Connectix and Key Curriculum Press. Since Connectix makes software that lets Windows programs work on Macs, seems like same old Microsoft tricks." gnovos points to another story at MSNBC on the shifting terms of this proposal.
...Fuck 'em.
I bet most of you have never even met anyone that works for MSFT. You just regurgitate biased, hateful PR spin thrown out there by companies like the failing VA Linux. Spin written out of a desperate need to libel and slander their competitor, since their "product" is hardly competitive with Microsoft's offerings. Furthermore, what IS in their product? A Linux "distribution"? What is that but simply bundling together the work of others, stamping your name on it, and selling it for money? Wow, how creative. What a great business model. No wonder these companies are tanking left and right.
To make this understandable to you geeks, I'll translate it into Star Trek terms. You've probably never SEEN, so much as MET anyone that works for Microsoft. They're like the Founders to you. And you are the pathetic little hive-minded Jem Hadar, and your ever burning (and completely irrational) hate for MS is your Ketracell White, fed to you intravenously via propoganda crap sites such as Slashdot.
Truth hurts, doesn't it, fuckers?
Go back to your Aeron chairs and Nerf guns. Enjoy them while you can still have them. Soon you'll all be sucking cock for quarters under bridges to pay the bills as the Sham That Is Linux is further exposed to the world.
Please explain where Microsoft has been found guilty in this case, considering it has not gone to trial.
This case is one where a bunch of lawyers decided they could get their hands in the cookie jar, so they filed a load of class action lawsuits. But it all is based on an assumption that consumers were overcharged. Something that the DOJ and all it's lawyers was never able to prove in the court of law. Their case was solely about a monopoly, and the default assumption is that the harm of having a monopoly is that the company will overcharge.
But that's never been proven, not with Microsoft, but not ever in the history of anti-trust. Standard Oil brought prices down, so did Alcoa, and AT&T and so forth.
Essentially this case is based upon many false assumptions.
But regardless, this is a pre-trial settlement, Microsoft is trying to get out of going to court. Chances are they would win this case, but it would cost the company a lot more to fight in than the settlement costs.
This isn't about punishment, it isn't about guilt or innocence. I am amazed at the number of people who just plain do not understand this simple fact.
Did you try using Internet Explorer 1.0? Any other company would have folded up and disappeared if that was their product. Sure, Netscape produced some crummy code and went down the tubes as a result. However, Microsoft would also have gone down the tubes long ago without their OS monopoly to prop up all their mistakes. Their ability to play the Terminator and just keep coming is a major factor in stifling innovation in the computer industry. Hey, I've got a great idea for writing new web browser software - now, what idiot wants to fund me to go up against Microsoft?
$5 / month hosted VPS on linux = awesome!
Put a sock in it you facist. Wanna beat kids? Go ahead. But let me know when the trial is so I can heckle you on the perp walk.
What the fuck is wrong with you?
Don't you mean "the operative term is was?"
I ANAL butt I've seen several mentions of how the DOJ case may be used as a precedent in civil cases, making them virtual slam-dinks.
What does the DOJ have to do with your love of cock up your ass-pussy?
Macs are just as, if not more flakey than windows boxes.
I beg to differ. I'm an Integrator and though I do Windows stuff, I specialize in Macs. I can go for weeks, sometimes even months without getting a call from my Mac-using clients. I've got their systems running like well-oiled machines. My Windows clients, I'm lucky if I can make it through a week without getting a call that something has blown up, and badly-- and don't even get me started about these fucking Outlook viruses. My Windows-only co-workers continually marvel at how seldom the Macs under my care need fixing, and how quickly and easily they are fixed when they do malfunction.
Macs are much easier to fix. 98% of the time one or more of these things will fix the problem: reboot, rebuild the desktop, run Norton, zap PRAM, trash the faulty app's preference file. 1% of the time, a reinstall or clean install of the OS (which takes significantly less time than a reinstall of Windows, BTW) will be necessary to fix the problem. The remaining 1% of the time, it's a hardware failure.
~Philly