BusinessWeek seems to be encouraging Microsoft to aid and abet a criminal enterprise (piracy). At the very least this is encouraging Microsoft to behave in a manner that would affect the RICO judgement against them. What would BusinessWeeks liability be?
I'm surprised that the guys from Google can't get politicians to talk to them. After all, their willingness to help China censor the web and now using lobbyists is definitely a sign that they say one thing and mean the opposite. They're beginning to sound like the congresscritters.
I agree with you but I also have a deeper concern:
Could Microsoft be intending to use these relationships to inject "proprietary" code into Linux distros so that they can sue at some point in the future?
My "Big Red Button Day" occurred due to a new employee on a government program at Peterson AFB. He was escorting the cleaning people around our office area and datacenter. Part of the task is to turn on flashing red lights to let people know that there are uncleared people in the room. When he escorted them into the datacenter, he saw "The Big Red Button" (covered, but unlabeled at the time) and thought, "Red button turns on red light".
Unfortunately, our office area was built on the computer room floor with the rest of the data center and shared the same power grid. When the newbie pressed the button, 25 RS/6000s, 1 IBM 3033 mainframe, 15 3394 disk packs, several VAX, PDP, dozens of PCs, X-Stations, etc and all the lights went out at the same time. It's never easy to find the breakers in the dark. It took us 3 days to get all the hardware back up and running properly.
1. Install the software as requested. 2. Find a new job. 3. Call the BSA and report your former employer. 4. Profit by collecting the reward from the BSA.
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I find your attitude towards people with bipolar disorder simply revolting!
...has bought the farm? ...is pushing up daisies? ...is worm food? ...has bitten the dust?
100MB?
Most kids have thumb drives; why would they want to use 100MB of disk space that can be spied on?
Just as long as they got rid of the tag.
My retinas will never be the same...
Think you have it bad? That'll be one week and one day after my 63rd birthday; only four years short of retirement.
So close, yet so far...
BusinessWeek seems to be encouraging Microsoft to aid and abet a criminal enterprise (piracy).
At the very least this is encouraging Microsoft to behave in a manner that would affect the RICO judgement against them. What would BusinessWeeks liability be?
Not until they pry the keyboard from my cold, dead fingers!
Until then, Thunderbird is my choice.
I don't know; sounds kind of fishy to me!
Actually, they got the idea of the bouncing bombs from watching the rabbits in the study explode from Holy Hand Grenades.
only when someone sets me on fire.
I'm surprised that BlendTec hasn't come out with the iBlend.
It's ALIVE!
Quick, Igor, LPAR the system!
They read /. just like the rest of us.
An internal survey that showed NSA employees have problems trusting each other.
They're spies! They're trained not to trust anyone!
Captain Obvious strikes again!
I'm surprised that the guys from Google can't get politicians to talk to them. After all, their willingness to help China censor the web and now using lobbyists is definitely a sign that they say one thing and mean the opposite. They're beginning to sound like the congresscritters.
Vista is way nicer to sue than XP.
Since when has it become acceptable to sue software?
I agree with you but I also have a deeper concern:
Could Microsoft be intending to use these relationships to inject "proprietary" code into Linux distros so that they can sue at some point in the future?
fATck or "fat chick"
Of course, you'd better not say that or fuck around the ladies.
Er, hot idea!
Um, maybe I should stop now.
What is an elephant?
It's a mouse built to military specifications.
Not surprised they built a five-sided building.
and I'll show you a man with an AM/FM pacemaker.
Or, in this case, a MP3-playing pacemaker.
Instead of Lost In Space.
Whoda thunk it?
My "Big Red Button Day" occurred due to a new employee on a government program at Peterson AFB. He was escorting the cleaning people around our office area and datacenter. Part of the task is to turn on flashing red lights to let people know that there are uncleared people in the room. When he escorted them into the datacenter, he saw "The Big Red Button" (covered, but unlabeled at the time) and thought, "Red button turns on red light".
Unfortunately, our office area was built on the computer room floor with the rest of the data center and shared the same power grid. When the newbie pressed the button, 25 RS/6000s, 1 IBM 3033 mainframe, 15 3394 disk packs, several VAX, PDP, dozens of PCs, X-Stations, etc and all the lights went out at the same time. It's never easy to find the breakers in the dark. It took us 3 days to get all the hardware back up and running properly.
Great... now our managers will put us back a cube/office/cage.
1. Install the software as requested.
2. Find a new job.
3. Call the BSA and report your former employer.
4. Profit by collecting the reward from the BSA.
The good thing is: masks of politicians are plentiful and cheap.
Unfortunately, so are the politicians.