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Judge Says Microsoft Must Give States Windows Code

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the wheels-of-justice-grinding-slowly-but-unsurely dept.

murphro (along with many others) writes, "Reuters is posting a story describing how the Judge has ordered the release of Windows code to the states seeking antitrust sanctions. I doubt it will actually happen (because MS will fight it this to the end). But if it did, do you think we commoners would ever see it? And if you did get your hands on the code, what would you do with it?" Here's the Yahoo link. (The same Reuters story is on dozens of other sites, too.)

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  1. Re:Poll on CNN on this issue - we are losing-go vo by t_allardyce · · Score: 0, Troll

    You can't win. MS has a script that keeps voting for them

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  2. Re:Can they Appeal by JamesOfTheDesert · · Score: 0, Troll
    Those 'funny' names are the only rhetorical tool left for those incapable of stating a cogent arguement.

    You wouldn't want Slashdot to be exclusionary, would you? Then you'd just see the same opinion over and over.

    Oh, wait ...

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  3. Re:what would we do with it? by mark_lybarger · · Score: 2, Troll

    i'm bored, it's saturday. wtf...


    why are you spending time even building a kernel anyway? the distro kernel has nearly every driver built as a module. there's even kernel upgrade rpm's if you need new functionality. i don't know that there's much difference in the 2.4.7 from rh 7.2 or the 2.4.17 that you're trying to use. bottom line, if you can't figure out how to configure your kernel by reading the documentation then use software that someone else has configured and tested.




    i think it's fair to say "i prefer windows because it works better for me", or "i like MS software because they put a lot of time and effort into it". when you start ranting stuff like "those linux folks have to get off their asses to make this stuff work better because i can't understand how to get it working nicely" you don't do yourself justice.

  4. Re:Hmm... by tomstdenis · · Score: 0, Troll

    Maybe you did all those reboots because YOU'RE STUPID

    Here are all the reboots I did [or steps]

    1. Install Win2k
    2. Setup TCP/IP, join local area network, Install Video, Sound and download first set of updates.

    3. Setup WinTV card. Download second set of updates plus MS IE 6.0

    4. Download yet more updates, DirectX 8.1, and install my development suites [cygwin and mingw32]

    5. Play some wolf... :-)

    Tom

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  5. Next Automakers and then.... by ToasterTester · · Score: 0, Troll

    Next all industries will have to publish all blueprints, schematics, and etc. I'd rather have to deal with so called monopolies than this socialist rubbish.

    The market place always has and still does control business. MS is the 800 pound gorilla because there isn't anything compelling enough for the masses to switch to. The American automakers fought small cars until they lost too many sales to Japan. People voted with their dollars and the people won. Give the masses, not computer geeks an real alternate OS and app's they want to use and MS will flinch

  6. Re:Of course IE can be removed... READ! by sheldon · · Score: 1, Troll

    Well the fuss is all just from a few companies who can't compete and politicians who didn't feel they were getting their wheels greased.

    Has Netscape ever asked to replace the IE integration in Windows? Are they even competent enough to pull it off if Microsoft documented it?

    The answer to both question is No, BTW. Which is how this all ties up into the first paragraph.