This is hardly a loss for Iomega. A $40 rebate from a company whose products average well over $100? If anything, this company is increasing its revenue stream. Sorry to the folks who have to live with this. Apparently you'll have to give them more of your money to get your "settlement" from these guys. Real smooth.
According to the About Us page, the company was
founded by two former M$ suits, and a lot of their
people are also former suits.
Who wants to cook up the first conspiracy theory on this one?
And who said Open Source was a useless waste of time? Alright, who wants to help me write the code for my new "ELDCC" (Embedded Linux Dancing Coke Can) project?
If you agree to it as a term of using their service, its legal. You aren't forced to use their service in any respect. Take it or leave it is the idea.
I have Netscape 6 installed, and so far I have not been forced to go to any Netscape sites. In fact, I find their options to be quite unintrusive. As a counterpoint, I think a lot of people (namely your parents, who can barely move a mouse) will be happy to have so many pages to go to as a starting point, without having to wander aimlessly around search engines to find what they want. For those who think IE is a saint in this matter, do I need to point out how many times various MSN sites are put in front of you? A website that doesn't come up goes to an MSN search box. The first time you bring up the browser it tries to make MSN your default home page. In the tools menu are links to Net2Phone and MSN messenger, and the favorites folder comes packed with various pages Microsoft would like you to visit to line their pockets. IE bundles their media player, their MSN client, their email program, and various "integration" features together. Why don't we all grow up a little, realize that Netscape (and Microsoft) are trying to make a profit (as you would in their position), and stop looking for the conspiracy monsters under your beds. If you don't like the links to the Netscape site, don't click on them. I'm sure the browser will continue to work regardless.
After reading this article and shaking my head, I saw the "about the author" blurb at the bottom: "Fred Moody is the author of I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier" now, with writing credits such as that, its obvious where this person's bias lies, and that his conclusions existed before his research was done. It should also be noted that while he makes reference to Linux being packaged by several different companies in the beginning, he lumps all the reports against Linux into one ball. While I don't have the time or desire to go over every report (and I doubt Mr. Moody did either), I have a strong feeling that a number of the reports overlap, or are very specific to a vendor that may have made a mistake in default configuration or compilation.
The only good thing I can think of is that some day, some where, people will dress up like Travolta and watch the stage version of this awful mess for kicks.
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1). The person called for tech support on a Dell with a Zip drive. That person was calling from Iomega, the maker of the Zip drives.
2). Read the signature line...
This is hardly a loss for Iomega. A $40 rebate from a company whose products average well over $100? If anything, this company is increasing its revenue stream. Sorry to the folks who have to live with this. Apparently you'll have to give them more of your money to get your "settlement" from these guys. Real smooth.
According to the About Us page, the company was founded by two former M$ suits, and a lot of their people are also former suits. Who wants to cook up the first conspiracy theory on this one?
And who said Open Source was a useless waste of time? Alright, who wants to help me write the code for my new "ELDCC" (Embedded Linux Dancing Coke Can) project?
Nobody tell them about http://www.realhamster.com/. We'll have the ASPCA all over them too.
Hey, didn't Tex Avery invent this for a Warner Brothers cartoon? If they try and patent it, we have prior art!
If you agree to it as a term of using their service, its legal. You aren't forced to use their service in any respect. Take it or leave it is the idea.
I have Netscape 6 installed, and so far I have not been forced to go to any Netscape sites. In fact, I find their options to be quite unintrusive. As a counterpoint, I think a lot of people (namely your parents, who can barely move a mouse) will be happy to have so many pages to go to as a starting point, without having to wander aimlessly around search engines to find what they want. For those who think IE is a saint in this matter, do I need to point out how many times various MSN sites are put in front of you? A website that doesn't come up goes to an MSN search box. The first time you bring up the browser it tries to make MSN your default home page. In the tools menu are links to Net2Phone and MSN messenger, and the favorites folder comes packed with various pages Microsoft would like you to visit to line their pockets. IE bundles their media player, their MSN client, their email program, and various "integration" features together. Why don't we all grow up a little, realize that Netscape (and Microsoft) are trying to make a profit (as you would in their position), and stop looking for the conspiracy monsters under your beds. If you don't like the links to the Netscape site, don't click on them. I'm sure the browser will continue to work regardless.
After reading this article and shaking my head, I saw the "about the author" blurb at the bottom: "Fred Moody is the author of I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier" now, with writing credits such as that, its obvious where this person's bias lies, and that his conclusions existed before his research was done. It should also be noted that while he makes reference to Linux being packaged by several different companies in the beginning, he lumps all the reports against Linux into one ball. While I don't have the time or desire to go over every report (and I doubt Mr. Moody did either), I have a strong feeling that a number of the reports overlap, or are very specific to a vendor that may have made a mistake in default configuration or compilation.
Does this mean that if the new definition of "going postal" will be crashing the PO's mail server?
The only good thing I can think of is that some day, some where, people will dress up like Travolta and watch the stage version of this awful mess for kicks.
Lets do the Tiiiiime warp agaaaaaain!