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Microsoft to Pay AOL $750M in Settlement
aoteoroa writes "Microsoft will pay $750 million to AOL Time Warner to settle an antitrust lawsuit filed by AOL on behalf of its subsidiary Netscape last year, the companies said Thursday.
At first blush the deal looks good, but I can't help but wonder how a deal that ties AOL to IE again will negatively impact my favorite web browser." Here's a news.com story that also covers it. Is the browser war over? If so, it sure was anticlimactic.
When asked for comment on whether Safari was at risk, Apple CEO Steve Jobs replied, "Nah, we offered them a free, unlimited iTunes account in exchange for a perpetual license. They snapped it up."
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No, you're wrong.. the war isn't over till :) Get that right!!
*Opera* is the winner
*shakes fist*
I didn't get a chance to chime in on this in the Munich story, but my money's on Microsoft in that one too. MS doesn't like to lose. And just try to measure the egg-on-face value of that!
The culture of fuck-over-at-all-costs comes from the top down, from Gates down. It's pervasive.
I hope the settlement is hard cash and not Windows XP licenses ;)
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I may be being extremely stupid here, but why would they use IE over Gecko.
The topic in #mozilla right now says "...He was later seen walking out of Bill Gates' office pulling up his pants."
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$x=~y+ -xz+\0-Tx+;print$_^chop$me for split'',$x;
as he takes a billion dollar bill from his wallet: "Got change?"
$oftware vouchers??
no no, the drinking isn't over till the fat lady's hot.
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
I appluad you efforts to step outsite the box from time to time. However, you are apparently an asshole and we don't want use to Linux becuase you will proably screw it up. Please continue to use your virus spreading OS and spyware prone browser. Thanks!
Karma: The shiznight, mostly because I am the Drizzle.
I find this to be the most interesting and ironic thing about the settlement. Wasn't the big complaint that MS undercut NS by bundling IE into things for free? Now AOL get's that priveledge as part of the settlement...
Davo -- Free speech, free software, AND free beer.
" Oh, and think of the irony that it comes at a time when Neo is in a coma and has been revealed to be not the Saviour, but the Angel of Death; when Buffy has been discontinued; and when Nanny Ogg is feeling just a wee bit under the weather...were these not omens that we failed to heed? How could we be so childish to believe these signs were just random events in popular culture..."
Ummm, because they were? Because you don't have a firm grip on reality if these tidbits of pop culture seem like omens of fate to you?
Look, I love the Matrix too, but these people that mistake movies like it and other pop culture for philosopy (or even a religion...Hello, Canadian Jedis!) need to pull their heads out of their asses and start taking their lithium. It's a FUCKING MOVIE, folks. You'd have thought Jesus Christ was playing Neo in it as seriously as some people are taking it.
As cliched' as it sounds, I'm going to say it anyway. Move out of your parents basement and get a life. There's a real world out there.
Life is hard, and the world is cruel