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Microsoft Accepts Most EU Demands, But Not Over Source
JoeGi writes "Microsoft sent a letter to EU regulators Monday accepting 20 out of the Commission's 26 demands. According to BetaNews, 'The remaining stumbling block to full compliance is source code licensing' as Microsoft is refusing access to open source projects. Microsoft officials told BetaNews they are trying 'to find a way that companies can implement these technologies in code that would get distributed with open source products, but the source code wouldn't be published itself.'"
As an act of goodwill Microsoft has decided to open source minesweeper.
I'm sure we can get some people to upload a torrent with the code in question...oh wait!
the EU should render Ms to Syria. IE7 might get improved with a little torture.
Waiting for Microsoft themselves, to put out a form of GPL they can use, to their advantage of course.
"To be is to do." -Socrates
"To do is to be." -Jean-Paul Sartre
"Do-be-do-be-do." -Frank Sinatra
Are you kidding?
You mean you actually believed those old propaganda videos? Do you know that in those films antimatter is a code word for puppies?
When Geordie referred to the "antimatter containment units" he was referring to the kennels where puppies were forced to run on treadmills to power the ship. When the puppies died from exhaustion they were liquefied and fed intravenously to the rest of the puppies.
So, when they have a containment breach in the warp core, that means...
Nevermind, I DON'T want to know. But it does explain so much about Star Trek (Wesley, Kirk's thing for alien chicks, Troi's sweater puppies).
No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. - Cmdr. Susan Ivanova
so I would tell them to fsck off What good would turning off filesystem checking do?
In a few trillion years, it will have run out of fuel.
A sample conversation among international friends:
European: "Well, but you see friend, this is necessary for the people. We're doing it for the people, after all."
American: "Yeah, I get that, but aren't you afraid they'll just withdraw from the market?"
European: "Ha! They wouldn't dare lose such a large piece of our thriving market. Why, why, that's 25 billion a year! Besides, do you really think our government would allow it? We could force them to stay after all. We could nationalize their entire business! What would they do then? Huh?"
American: "I dunno... *shrugs* Who is John Galt?"
Because of this Microsoft re-wrote Windows 3.1 to randomly crash if it was run on top of DrDos
Dude, that was the standard behavior, even with MS-DOS !
Write boring code, not shiny code!
Keyboards? Just hide the mice.
You can't engage in illegal anticompetitive behaviors and still represent something as an even playing field. Period. I'm sorry if this sounds patronizing to you, but it's a pretty easy concept. If there was a way I could explain it that was complicated and difficult I would.
You are wrong WRONG WRONG!
You certainly can explain it in a way that is more complicated and difficult. I suggest you try using a thesaurus. Use more commas, lots and lots of commas. Try writing it in Cantonese. And if all else fails, let Clippy offer you some advice.
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