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Microsoft Case Proceeds
YeOldeCurmudgeon writes "This story just posted on Yahoo: Federal Judge Denies Microsoft Motion to Dismiss Antitrust Case. Microsoft's motion to dismiss the suit filed by the 9 dissenting states was denied. The judge agrees the states can sue." An article in the San Francisco Chronicle summarizes the case's current state and what's coming up next.
... Cause most states are looking for revenue to pay for all the programs they created last year.
Hooray! The Microsoft case continues! Kudos to the judge who agreed the states can sue. This is a happy day for the good guys, because although the war against the EVIL EMPIRE hasn't yet been won, this decision brings us one step closer to a world of freedom, without the limitations and problems Microsoft sees fit to impose on the good people of the world.
This is a happy day for the BSDs, for Linux, and for all the freedom-loving people of the world.
I don't support either of them. That's what makes me different; I haven't adopted this battle into my stupid battle of choice. When people type that whole M$ crap I just cringe because the majority of you that do it are 15 years posting to /. from your parents AOL connection talking about how you run debian this or redhat that just so the other dorks in CS club will think your cool even though it never occurs to you that they're just as much of a poser as you are.
When Linux dies, it's because people like you will have turned it into Microsoft.
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
Sure thing Rilpley. Can you give me one reason people tie their work up in bloated, secret, propriatory formats that change once a year so that your previous work must be redone? Oh, that's right, people used Word because that's what the friendly M$ agent gave them in business school, then later it was the only comercial package that you could buy from a large retailer like Dell. So now with so many free alternatives available, you think people are going to continue to flog themsleves with M$ crap?
M$ is going to have to legislate themselves out of their current predicament. Their usual anti-competitive marketing policies will simply destroy their old friends. FUD is failing them as more people free themselves, and dumping is NOT something they can continue forever. Without some kind of horrid digital rights denial laws, the coomiditization of OS is the death of M$ and friends. If the feds want money from M$ they had better fine them or regulate them like tobaco. Otherwise M$ will slip away like glass bottle makers.
DMCA, Hollings, Palladium. What might have sounded like paranoia is now common sense.
but maybe I'll hum a few bars :-)
My first MS bug: '83 MS Fortran v3.1 produced incorrect machine code in do loops nested >= 3 deep
Linux is Linux, if One need clarify their dist: <Dist>/GNU Linux
bsds are of course just BSD
If we were to see balmer in an S&M getup spanking gates with a leather paddle it would all be worth it.
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