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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: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.