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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? "
shuddup yo' face
As if millions of Nerds cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.
-everphilski-
how does this have any relevance at all?
that would be work. You see slashdot is all about getting by with the least amount of work possible. witness the refusal to fix the overrated moderation bug. if you get modded overrated, your post does not go to metamod. It took them forever to fix the stupid page widening bugs.
I used to subscribe because I liked the site, But the upkeep got so pathetic that I never bothered to renew my subscription. 503 errors all the time, broken moderation (see above).
What are you smoking? Slashdot goes down more than a las vegas hooker.
what does your post have any relevance to anything at all?
ooh burned. hypocrite.
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.
Shame we do not have men like this anymore... just whining Slashdot asshats
"James Stockdale, Perot Running Mate, Dies 30 minutes ago
Retired Vice Adm. James Stockdale, Ross Perot's 1992 presidential running mate who received the Medal of Honor after enduring 7 1/2 years in a North Vietnamese prison, died Tuesday. He was 81.
The Navy did not provide a cause of death but said he had suffered from Alzheimer's disease. He died at his home in Coronado.
In the 1992 presidential election, Stockdale became independent candidate Perot's vice presidential running mate, initially as a stand-in on the ticket but later as the candidate.
Stockdale gave a stumbling performance in the nationally televised vice-presidential debate against Dan Quayle and Al Gore and later said he didn't feel comfortable in the public eye.
"Who am I? Why am I here?" he asked rhetorically in his opening statement. Toward the end, he asked the moderator to repeat a question, saying, "I didn't have my hearing aid turned on."
During the Vietnam War, Stockdale was a Navy fighter pilot based on the USS Oriskany and flew 201 missions before he was shot down on Sept. 9, 1965. He became the highest-ranking naval officer captured during the war, the Navy said.
Stockdale was taken to Hoa Lo Prison, known as the "Hanoi Hilton." His shoulders were wrenched from their sockets, his leg had been shattered by angry villagers and a torturer, and his back was broken. But he refused to capitulate.
Rather than allow himself to be used in a propaganda film, Stockdale smashed his face into a pulp with a mahogany stool.
"My only hope was to disfigure myself," Stockdale wrote in his 1984 autobiography "In Love and War." The ploy worked, but he spent the next two years in leg irons.
After Ho Chi Minh's death, he broke a glass pane in an interrogation room and slashed his wrists until he passed out in his own blood. After that, captors relented in their harsh treatment of him and his fellow prisoners.
Stockdale spent four years in solitary confinement before his release in 1973.
He received 26 combat decorations, including the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest medal for valor, in 1976. The citation reads, "By his heroic action at great peril to himself, he earned the everlasting gratitude of his fellow prisoners and of his country."
He retired from the military in 1979, one of the most highly decorated officers in U.S. Navy history, and became president of the Citadel, a military college in South Carolina. He left in 1981 to become a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford.
Stockdale came to know Perot through Sybil Stockdale's work establishing an organization on behalf of families of prisoners held during the Vietnam War.
When Perot ran again in 1996 as the candidate of his Reform Party, Stockdale had rejoined the Republican Party.
He is survived by his wife and four sons."
Slashdot goes down more than your mom at a boner convention.
More funny.
lmfao
;P
Yeah mr, stfu, n00b
(j/k)
Do the world a favor and spend a couple of minutes to see if there are any vendors besides amazon that sell this book.
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!