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Founder of Go Computer, Inc. sues Microsoft
wantobe writes "From Yahoo! News 'Microsoft saw Go's PC operating system as a serious threat to its operating system monopoly and took swift covert action to 'kill' it just as it did the Netscape/Sun Java threat to its monopoly," according to Go's private action in federal court. '
Are Kaplan's complaints warranted, or is he just taking advantage of some recent Microsoft court losses and trying to get his cut? "
If Mickeysoft did do it then they should pay.
It was standard procedure from them. The government didn't do anything under the do-nothing Republicans.
Which brings up the Justice departments ridiculous penalty or slap on the hand . Why didn't anyone mention to the DOJ that Mickeysoft should release 'driver source code'.Hardware makers should have been forced to release technical details or not use Mickeysoft's OS. Anything that dealt with 'lockin' should be opened.
Also breaking the OEM and MSFT monopoly would have been a nice idea. So you would have to buy the 'expensive' software off the shelf. That might have made people think twice about buying it.
Nope.
Also, you get the "It's been x minutes since you last posted error" even if x > 2 minutes.
And the 503 bug this morning.
And the fact every subdomain.slashdot.org has it's own cookies.
And the stupid CAPTCHAs that make posting not logged in hard - someone will circumvent these I'm sure - then they'll just be an annoyance.
And the fact Funny doesn't raise karma.
Someone could get 20 Funnys and 20 Trolls, the post wouldn't necessarily hit the max or min score and lose 20 karma.
Someone could be at Karma 50 and get an Interesting and then a Troll mod on the same post and go down to 49 Karma.
Karma numbers are hidden even from yourself.
"Your Rights Online" is used for anything freedom based. Even if it has nothing to do with the Internet. Like if there was a new Patriot Act requirement that banks report more transactions to the Feds - might be legitimate news for Slashdot, but not YRO.
Apple lovers. Bashing Apple gets one modded down, even though they have sued many people.
Lameness filters. That's censorship - since they abort the post. Let the person post even at -1, but don't abort the post.
They can be circumvented too.
Not only that, they abort legitimate content.
Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech is blocked by Slashdot's filters. FIX THIS!
Just because it CAN be done, doesn't mean it should!