In five, six years, max, elementary school kids in most of the developed world won't call it a "computer", they'll call it a "microsoft".
Spelled entirely in lower case, no longer a proper noun, utterly disassociated from the Beast of Redmond, the common name for the device that we all love so much will have become "microsoft"
In whatever form it will evolve into, physically, in the general vernacular it'll be called a "microsoft"
"Update: 10/28 13:42 GMT by J: Little-known fact -- for important stories, slashdot sometimes runs duplicates to see who's still awake on a weekend. Nice work to those of you who caught it. See you next week. *sigh*"
Add this to voice recognition, and soon offices everywhere will be filled with the sounds and sights of staff muttering odd phrases while performing odd contortions!
WTF is wrong with a keyboard, anyway?
(And yes! yes! yes! I *am* aware that some miniscule percentage of the population doesn't have hands...)
Let's face it: *something* is wrong with just about *everybody* -- get over it and get on with life.
"...Microsoft wouldn't be concerned about registering microsoft.porn, because nobody would even go there if they were looking for a microsoft product...."
...the most succinct analysis of this whole big buzz:
"Even if both programmers did their reverse engineering independently, aside from using different names, there's not a lot of different ways the struct could look. Even if the linux developer did look at the BSD header file to learn the data formats, how different could one expect his code to possibly be?? If it's an algorithm with some creative implementation, I can see the accusation, but over a header file that simply documents simple facts seems a bit much. Sure, it can be hard work to get those facts by reverse engineering, but still, the "IP Theft" is simple facts (not really protected by copyright, in my limited understanding of copyright law... IANAL).
And finally, if Søren really does hope "an amicable solution can be reached", why's he turning this into a bunch of bad PR for linux and redhat ?? It's sounds to me like a case of getting mad and posting flames instead of cooling off for a day and thinking it through more carefully...."
And of course/. gets to run an "article" that generates hundreds of inflamed posts.
Nothin' like mass posts to keep the advertising rates up...
There's a theory that this is all a setup by the Trilateral Commission (or was it the Nocturnal Emission..?) to divert US troops so that 500,000 massed United Nations troops could sweep down out of their secret hiding places in the woods of norther Minnesota, take over the United States, and institute a One World Government(tm).
I'm surprised that you haven't heard of *that* theory...
If my snort logs show that I was infected by something from your box (which won't happen, 'cause all your stupid crap would just bounce off my firewall, but *if*...), what's your mailing address so my very expensive, and very, very agressive lawyer can get a hold of you and sue you for damages?
"...there aren't ways to tell how a page was created..."
Not so, mon petite, not so.
Take a look at the html.
You can tell something aborted by (I won't use the term "created" in the same sentence as "Front Page"...) Front Page by the monstrous spaghetti code that's produced, plus by the -- ah, um.. -- "creative" use of whitespace in the html, ostensibly to make the html clearer to read...
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Gee Dub Ya and the Republicans are in the White House.
There is no government.
There is no justice.
There's big business. Period.
Of course Micro$oft is going to win this deal.
Business is king.
And remember, Americans, when the going gets tough, the *good* American goes shopping.
t_t_b
Spelled entirely in lower case, no longer a proper noun, utterly disassociated from the Beast of Redmond, the common name for the device that we all love so much will have become "microsoft"
In whatever form it will evolve into, physically, in the general vernacular it'll be called a "microsoft"
Sad..
t_t_b
Where have you been?
To answer your question, about since /. first came into existence...
t_t_b
You have *got* to be kidding!
More like, who's asleep at /.
t_t_b
*I* get it...
"hammer"
huh.
t_t_b
Really?
Check out the costs for MSDN, and all the tools...
You'll pay, and pay, and pay...
How did you think BillyG got so rich, anyway?
t_t_b
There's not one suggestion of "open source zealotry" in it.
It was a technical exercise, asshole.
Get a clue.
t_t_b
I'm sorry... did I miss something?
I thought Internet Explorer 5.1 was a Micro$oft product..
t_t_b
WTF is wrong with a keyboard, anyway?
(And yes! yes! yes! I *am* aware that some miniscule percentage of the population doesn't have hands...)
Let's face it: *something* is wrong with just about *everybody* -- get over it and get on with life.
t_t_b
hmm...
I'm not.
Therefore I don't.
t_t_b
Speak for yourself...
t_t_b
To quote:
Woo hoo!
Sign me up!
[we're in the money.. c'mon my honey...]
t_t_b
And finally, if Søren really does hope "an amicable solution can be reached", why's he turning this into a bunch of bad PR for linux and redhat ?? It's sounds to me like a case of getting mad and posting flames instead of cooling off for a day and thinking it through more carefully...."
And of course /. gets to run an "article" that generates hundreds of inflamed posts.
Nothin' like mass posts to keep the advertising rates up...
t_t_b
There's a theory that this is all a setup by the Trilateral Commission (or was it the Nocturnal Emission..?) to divert US troops so that 500,000 massed United Nations troops could sweep down out of their secret hiding places in the woods of norther Minnesota, take over the United States, and institute a One World Government(tm).
I'm surprised that you haven't heard of *that* theory...
Everyone knows that's what's really going on...
Christ! Get with the program.
t_t_b
ps: it's "cheese"
t_t_b
C'mon, here, folks, get a clue!
Stop letting "them" tell you anything!
F*ck Micro$oft!
What's so hard to understand about that?
t_t_b
Not so, mon petite, not so.
Take a look at the html.
You can tell something aborted by (I won't use the term "created" in the same sentence as "Front Page"...) Front Page by the monstrous spaghetti code that's produced, plus by the -- ah, um.. -- "creative" use of whitespace in the html, ostensibly to make the html clearer to read...
t_t_b
Don't use Front Page.
Don't use Micro$oft products at all, for that matter...
t_t_b
Where's my .sig?
t_t_b
Who cares?
Gee Dub Ya and the Republicans are in the White House.
The business of America is Business!
On with the show!
t_t_b
And now it's links to MozillaQuest.
For shame, Taco, for shame.
Or have you none?
t_t_b
Somebody take the moderators outside and shoot them...
t_t_b
So 50% of Americans are consumerist sheep and according to some study, spend their time looking at AOL/Time Warner/Micro$oft/Yahoo-based web sites.
I'm actually surprised the percentage isn't higher...
But really, who cares?
What are the *other* 50% doing? That's a lot of people, remember.
Personally, I never look at *any* of those web sites.
Never...
Do you?
Does that study, and that article, mean that the web that I use, and the web that you use, are going to go away?
In a word: No!
Let the K-Mart Kulture AmeriKan Konsumerist sheep stare at their AOL/Time Warner/Micro$oft/Yahoo-based web sites.
That's all they deserve, anyway...
t_t_b
You'll see that from time to time around here...
t_t_b
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better!
Isn't it?t_t_b