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Microsoft Expert Witness Stumbles

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the everyone-feel-bad-for-stu dept.

parking_god writes "MIT prof Stuart Madnick, testifying on MS's behalf, was caught out twice when a government attorney asked him to name an OS (other than one made by Microsoft) where the browser couldn't be removed. Madnick also faltered on several other questions." Basically he doesn't understand what GNOME and KDE are, and since we're all holier-than-thou know-it-alls around here, we might as well laugh at Microsoft's expense ;)

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  1. fp? by koekepeer · · Score: 0, Redundant

    so what did you expect from them. they are not even allowed to run anything else than ms on their desktops, it's prolly in their contract ;)

  2. gnome and kde aren't OSes by Kunta+Kinte · · Score: 0, Redundant

    gnome and kde aren't OSes

    Truth is, I still can't name one.

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  3. Not a CS professor by thvv · · Score: 1, Redundant
    Stu Madnick is a professor in the Sloan School of Management, not in the CS department. This department has other professors who have testified and consulted for Microsoft, such as Dick Schmalensee, see this Microsoft propaganda.

    (In the sixties at MIT, the Project MAC folks mostly thought that the school of management people were not in the forefront of the field. Undergraduates who were flunking out of EE would change majors to Management and coast through. I am sure things have changed since then but in those days, mis-identifying Madnick as a CS professor would get an immediate reaction.)

  4. Re:IE is just a shell by opkool · · Score: 3, Redundant

    Have you ever heard of Win98Lite?

    It is a program that erradicates IExplorer from Windows. Windows is completely usable. You have to get another web browser (Netscape, Mozilla...) and a file amnager (the old on from Win95... or use Midnight Commander ontop a Cygwin bash shell).

    I used back then, to get a P1666 no-mmx with 32MB of RAM to run Windows 98. Before Win98Lite, it was slow as.... as WinXP. After using Win98Lite, it was usable again, moderately fast... a cool college machine. Until SuSE 5.3 got its way into it, of course *grin*

    More information can be found here

  5. Plaintiffs should demo KDE, Gnome w/o broswer func by kelzer · · Score: 0, Redundant

    One of the inaccurate statements this moron made was that you couldn't remove browsing functionality from KDE or Gnome without losing the entire GUI.

    Those respective projects should bust their butts to immediated deliver updates of the latest version with absolutely no integrated web browsing functionality, just to further demonstrate the worthlessness of this clown's testimony.

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  6. IT != CS by Ryu2 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    IT person : CS person is like

    Auto mechanic : Mechanical engineer
    Microwaving frozen meal : Chef creating own dishes from scratch

    etc, etc.

    IT is a offshoot BUSINESS field, CS is offshoot of MATHEMATICS, IT people are generally glorified academic PHBs, having no real in-depth CS knowledge. Maybe C or Java programming, basic sort/search algorithms at best.

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  7. Re:Microsoft maybe not as funny as you think by Malcontent · · Score: 3, Redundant

    "It would take an unimaginable sum of money for me to sell out and lose the respect of my peers."

    Well lucky for you MS has unimaginable sums of money.

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