Just as an addendum, Microsoft considers everything apart from pre-loads and shrink-wrap purchases to be 'piracy', so their opinion is a bit dubious anyway.
But Disney doesn't want to give 'Steamboat Willie' away, so every so often the copyright period gets upped. In related news, some US states are suing the cartel over CD price-fixing. When is the DOJ going to get off it's collective backside and apply the anti-cartel laws as vigorously as it has been applying the anti-trust laws to everyone's favourite monopoly?
"There isn't any difference between abandonware and piracy," says Diana Piquette, antipiracy manager for Microsoft.
Does this mean that Microsoft are going to stop selling any more DOS-based operating systems, due to the fact that the intellectual property was stolen from someone else.
In that case why didn't the Amiga kick the PCs ass, considering it was more powerful and cost about 1/10th of the price of the PC. Marketing is the reason, which encompasses more than just price.
Billy boy is discribed as
'virtuoso software engineer with virtually zero charisma'. I bet he loved that description, although I've got to question the 'virtuoso' part. Freedom to 'Innovate' anyone.
How long do you think it takes to rewrite the whole of Netscape Communicator and make it truly cross-platform. The only more ambitious project I've seen is the rewrite of Windows NT and that took 4 years. If the last milestone is 21 then at the current rate of progress, Mozilla 1.0 will be out in around 5 months. So just over 2 years to do all the required work is superb. Stop complaining, I'd like to see a complete rewrite of IE, Outlook and Frontpage which made them truly cross-platform take any less time than this.
Use galeon for the time being, then you don't get anything except a browser.
The trouble is that we are stuck in a dumbed-down GUI is best world. But in defense of GUIs, they flattened the learning curve of Linux for me, but because I could see what was being generated, so nowadays I hand-hack and don't bother piddling about with GUIs. However, coming from a Windows world, had KDE1.1.1 not been there, I would have given up in disgust after a while, because it is complicated and intimidating to those of us who didn't go to university/college and get taught Unix there. A GUI frontend to Unix's confusing commands (don%3 t tell me 'grep' or 'sed' actually say what they do - except as obscure acronyms) brings newbies into the light - well it worked for me anyway.
And since when has the MS incentive been anything but to hold onto their marketshare like a spoiled brat in a nursery. Netscape failed because they offered a cross-platform way to access the internet and the monopoly were afraid of this. Hence they used the well-known and highly illegal monopolistic practice of 'dumping', as in giving away your product to drive any competition out of the market. IE is better than NS for one reason. It has financial backing that NS4.7 doesn't. Had the monopoly behaved itself Netscape wouldn't be in such a mess now, and we'd see real competition.
If you had really read the information, you would realise that plex86 and bochs ARE being combined and the guy that wrote bochs is now working on plex86.
They use then because we are safe in the knowledge that they have been strenuosly tested for deployment in large scale organisations
Yeah right. That's why large scale organisations use mainframes or high-end Unix for real processing and WNT to provide the pretty front-end. When my bank statement or utility bill is produced by an MS product, then I'll be impressed. Till then, it's little more than eye-candy.
I do agree that Linux is harder to learn for a desktop user, but that doesn't mean that it shouldn't be on your server. An end to all those 'scheduled reboots' - but then again that's your overtime gone.
Why don't you read the site and the posts before you post? Plex86 is to allow you to run any x86 OS in a window on Linux. So, for example, you were a web designer and you wanted to make sure that your page would display on as many browser OS/combinations as possible, you could have Linux as your main with Windows in one window, BeOS in another and FreeBSD in another and test the page without having to reboot.Nothing to do with MS-bashing
Because kudzu was created by RedHat, as was sndconfig. Mandrake is still RedHat-based in terms of file structure, but is no longer merely RedHat++ like it used to be.
This comment make me wonder how many non-techies have complained about the dancing paperclip, which is probably the most childish thing I've ever seen on a business app. Don't underestimate the value of simplicity and pretty colours - after all that's how MS made most of their money.
Linus is Finnish, but I'll grant you your point. I laughed out loud when I saw that America makes the best software. Please replace microcode with marketing and you'll be accurate.
How about one that fires up a message 'This virus was brought to you by a Microsoft security bug (tm)' 20 times. Perhaps then people would get the point.
Point me to a URL where Microsoft were 'held accountable' for their software not working properly by a large corporation. The truth is that the EULA has recently been upheld in a court of law by a company that lost $1.5M due to a company's poor software, so you are dependent on MS to be bothered to fix a problem. With OSS you can hire someone to do it for you, or you can inform the author who 99 times out a hundred will fix it for you. Accountable to the market is a hilarious statement. The people that choose the software are rarely the ones that have to work with it, they're the ones making IT staff work extra hours to get the damn thing in.
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Just as an addendum, Microsoft considers everything apart from pre-loads and shrink-wrap purchases to be 'piracy', so their opinion is a bit dubious anyway.
I always understood that they ripped off CP/M and that they settled out-of-court when Digital Research sued.
But Disney doesn't want to give 'Steamboat Willie' away, so every so often the copyright period gets upped. In related news, some US states are suing the cartel over CD price-fixing. When is the DOJ going to get off it's collective backside and apply the anti-cartel laws as vigorously as it has been applying the anti-trust laws to everyone's favourite monopoly?
"There isn't any difference between abandonware and piracy," says Diana Piquette, antipiracy manager for Microsoft.
Does this mean that Microsoft are going to stop selling any more DOS-based operating systems, due to the fact that the intellectual property was stolen from someone else.
In that case why didn't the Amiga kick the PCs ass, considering it was more powerful and cost about 1/10th of the price of the PC. Marketing is the reason, which encompasses more than just price.
Billy boy is discribed as
'virtuoso software engineer with virtually zero charisma'. I bet he loved that description, although I've got to question the 'virtuoso' part. Freedom to 'Innovate' anyone.
How long do you think it takes to rewrite the whole of Netscape Communicator and make it truly cross-platform. The only more ambitious project I've seen is the rewrite of Windows NT and that took 4 years. If the last milestone is 21 then at the current rate of progress, Mozilla 1.0 will be out in around 5 months. So just over 2 years to do all the required work is superb. Stop complaining, I'd like to see a complete rewrite of IE, Outlook and Frontpage which made them truly cross-platform take any less time than this.
Use galeon for the time being, then you don't get anything except a browser.
The trouble is that we are stuck in a dumbed-down GUI is best world. But in defense of GUIs, they flattened the learning curve of Linux for me, but because I could see what was being generated, so nowadays I hand-hack and don't bother piddling about with GUIs. However, coming from a Windows world, had KDE1.1.1 not been there, I would have given up in disgust after a while, because it is complicated and intimidating to those of us who didn't go to university/college and get taught Unix there. A GUI frontend to Unix's confusing commands (don%3 t tell me 'grep' or 'sed' actually say what they do - except as obscure acronyms) brings newbies into the light - well it worked for me anyway.
And since when has the MS incentive been anything but to hold onto their marketshare like a spoiled brat in a nursery. Netscape failed because they offered a cross-platform way to access the internet and the monopoly were afraid of this. Hence they used the well-known and highly illegal monopolistic practice of 'dumping', as in giving away your product to drive any competition out of the market. IE is better than NS for one reason. It has financial backing that NS4.7 doesn't. Had the monopoly behaved itself Netscape wouldn't be in such a mess now, and we'd see real competition.
It might come in handy for DNA analysis.
If you had really read the information, you would realise that plex86 and bochs ARE being combined and the guy that wrote bochs is now working on plex86.
Nice troll.
They use then because we are safe in the knowledge that they have been strenuosly tested for deployment in large scale organisations
Yeah right. That's why large scale organisations use mainframes or high-end Unix for real processing and WNT to provide the pretty front-end. When my bank statement or utility bill is produced by an MS product, then I'll be impressed. Till then, it's little more than eye-candy.
I do agree that Linux is harder to learn for a desktop user, but that doesn't mean that it shouldn't be on your server. An end to all those 'scheduled reboots' - but then again that's your overtime gone.
Why don't you read the site and the posts before you post? Plex86 is to allow you to run any x86 OS in a window on Linux. So, for example, you were a web designer and you wanted to make sure that your page would display on as many browser OS/combinations as possible, you could have Linux as your main with Windows in one window, BeOS in another and FreeBSD in another and test the page without having to reboot.Nothing to do with MS-bashing
Because kudzu was created by RedHat, as was sndconfig. Mandrake is still RedHat-based in terms of file structure, but is no longer merely RedHat++ like it used to be.
http://galeon.sourceforge.net
And owning a gun would serve what purpose in this case? Damn trigger-happy Yanks.
Corporations do not have the right to do anything to make money, otherwise they'd all be selling class A drugs.
This comment make me wonder how many non-techies have complained about the dancing paperclip, which is probably the most childish thing I've ever seen on a business app. Don't underestimate the value of simplicity and pretty colours - after all that's how MS made most of their money.
When IBM was the enemy? How things have changed in the last 10 years. I remember when all this was just fields blah blah reminisce........
Because Windows has a large corporation with an excellent marketing department. Repeat after me - 'large sales do not a godd product make'.
Linus is Finnish, but I'll grant you your point. I laughed out loud when I saw that America makes the best software. Please replace microcode with marketing and you'll be accurate.
How about one that fires up a message 'This virus was brought to you by a Microsoft security bug (tm)' 20 times. Perhaps then people would get the point.
Exactly, which is one of the many reasons why the MS monopoly is a bad thing.
Point me to a URL where Microsoft were 'held accountable' for their software not working properly by a large corporation. The truth is that the EULA has recently been upheld in a court of law by a company that lost $1.5M due to a company's poor software, so you are dependent on MS to be bothered to fix a problem. With OSS you can hire someone to do it for you, or you can inform the author who 99 times out a hundred will fix it for you.
Accountable to the market is a hilarious statement. The people that choose the software are rarely the ones that have to work with it, they're the ones making IT staff work extra hours to get the damn thing in.