Taco or someone at/. should look at the logs and trace this ASSHOLE then forward it to the Feds and US, the/. readers. Then we all can help find their cowardly asses.
Did you forget that Star Office can import that MS Presentation (So you can keep that Corporate 'Theme') and go from there... oh wait my Winblows just crashed.
I hate to break it to ya, but no matter what MicroShaft says - You bought 500 licenses of Win 98 you can install it on ANY 500 coputers you want. You can even install it on 1000 computers so long as only 500 are being used at a time.
A few Observations:
The email says it will keep the OEM's identity private from the Customer!
I suggest NDA's for all
Any OEM giving info should be sued
Let's start a list of M$ OEMs that have submitted people/companies and Boycott them
M$ does in fact offer Enterprise Licenses covering all PCs
A list is submitted to M$ every year.
Our company has one
I suggest that we send this stuf including this entire thread to the Justice Department - Add more fuel to the Fire.
Also I agree we all should send one email for each PC we've bought without M$ crap to the SBWest address - That's NOT Flooding. It's informative
Finally, we should attach an invoice for Full retail to the Emails for each copy of WinBlows we've wiped of the Machine - OR - Gather All the Licenses up and put them on E-bay for $.25 each (Yes Virgina courts have upheld that licenses are transferrable.)
You as well as many of society miss the "REAL" big picture!
>In short, I want the gov't. to.... > >BUT > >I don't want the gov't to control me.
Your solution is to tell all hardware vendors and all Software developers that they *MUST* support multiple Operating Systems. Gee should we pass some more laws?!?
Any company has a right to support or not support what ever they want.
One viable solution is :
Break M$ up and require that M$ companies may only get API's via the same method as the rest of the world.
Require all OS source code to be made available
Dissolve all current "Volume Purchase Agreements" with PC manufacturers.
Disallow discounted software based on dissimilar bundles (i.e. Win 2000 and Office and IE)
WTF - Last time I looked Linux had networking support as well as a compile option to optimize as a router Gee - I think a router is a network Component!
I'm sorry and will probably get flamed but... IBM released all the hardware schematics for all of the PC architectures at the same time they released the hardware. The only part of the system that was copyrighted and "propriety hardware" was the ROM BIOS and that was mostly because of the embedded BASIC interpeter. BTW - That BASIC was owned by M$ and only licensed by IBM.
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Yo Mod This up!!
Post the URLs!!!
Taco or someone at /. should look at the logs and trace this ASSHOLE then forward it to the Feds and US, the /. readers. Then we all can help find their cowardly asses.
Did you forget that Star Office can import that MS Presentation (So you can keep that Corporate 'Theme') and go from there ... oh wait my Winblows just crashed.
What If I want to run my own OS???
A few Observations:
I suggest that we send this stuf including this entire thread to the Justice Department - Add more fuel to the Fire.
Also I agree we all should send one email for each PC we've bought without M$ crap to the SBWest address - That's NOT Flooding. It's informative
Finally, we should attach an invoice for Full retail to the Emails for each copy of WinBlows we've wiped of the Machine - OR - Gather All the Licenses up and put them on E-bay for $.25 each (Yes Virgina courts have upheld that licenses are transferrable.)
There is a Lucent Winmodem ( Imean Linmodem) driver. Check out www.linmodems.org
The link to the driver is www.linmodems.org/linux.568.zip
>In short, I want the gov't. to
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>BUT
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>I don't want the gov't to control me.
Your solution is to tell all hardware vendors and all Software developers that they *MUST* support multiple Operating Systems. Gee should we pass some more laws?!?
Any company has a right to support or not support what ever they want.
One viable solution is :
This is probably already known but Slackware DOES support RPMs
>Linux by itself is not a NOS
WTF - Last time I looked Linux had networking support as well as a compile option to optimize as a router
Gee - I think a router is a network Component!
I'm sorry and will probably get flamed but...
;)
IBM released all the hardware schematics for all of the PC architectures at the same time they released the hardware. The only part of the system that was copyrighted and "propriety hardware" was the ROM BIOS and that was mostly because of the embedded BASIC interpeter. BTW - That BASIC was owned by M$ and only licensed by IBM.
Beware Developers that never heard of CPM/86