"Naturally you'd still have lamers on p2p, but then these people would never use a pay site anyway, even if meant wasting ten hours to find and download the same songs that the pay site sold for seven dollars."
Free is still free. So what if it takes a little longer...People just queue up a ton of titles, let it run overnight, and sort out the carnage in the morning.
I can't imagine the major labels having anything i'd want anyways, besides a song or two. Most of the stuff I listen to is either jazz, classical, independent artists, or rather esoteric(video game soundtracks, anime music, comedy songs, etc.).
Case in point, I have an FTP session going with about 4 gigs of song transfers queued right now....Going at 5 K/sec or so, but hell, I have broadband, so does it really matter if it takes a week or two to finish? I already have a huge amount of music, and getting a slow but steady stream of new files is good enough for me.
Mandrake has this capability too, since at least version 8.0 or 8.1. A few clicks in the Control Center, and all Windows fonts on the machine are scanned for, found, installed, and available.
Sadly, the average broadband dorm-dwelling college student could, if s/he had enough storage space, download 600 songs in 20 seconds.
Let's see...
600 songs at an avg. of 2 megs per song = ~1.2 gigabytes = 60 megs/sec needed to download 600 songs in 20 seconds.
Excuse me while I laugh in your face. First of all, the average college student is on a 10/100 megabit ethernet network(as am I), and I can only get 10-12 megs/sec tops transferring from someone else on the network, that being an extreme rarity - my average speeds are more like 2-4 megs/sec.
And that's to say nothing of stuff like Kaaza, WinMX, Bearshare, Gnutella, etc. I'm lucky to hit 300 K/sec from someone, and most days, it's more like 0.3 K/sec.
I swear to god, i'll eat the keyboard i'm typing this on, if you can find a "average broadband dorm-dwelling college student"(i.e not gigabit ethernet, direct T1 connections, or something crazy) that gets regular downloads at 60 megabytes/second.
Unfortunately, it's not uncommon for many college students to have hundreds of GigaBytes of MP3 songs that they did not pay for. It's all too confusing, and most students don't even understand what they're doing is wrong.
It sounds to me like you have absolutely no idea of the scale of the terms you're using. I'm at an extremely "geek" school(RIT), and even here, out of those enthusiastic about filesharing, i'll bet you anything there's only 100-200 people max with 100 gig+ MP3 collections....Out of a good 12,000 students or so. How is that "not uncommon"?
I'd question the policies of your school, if they hired someone as misinformed as you.
Like it or not, everything musical you purchase has an association with the RIAA
Hell no.
The vast majority of my MP3 collection is game and anime soundtracks(Yes, i'm a total geek.).
Are you trying to tell me that the RIAA controls places like NTT Publishing, DigiCube, or for that matter, any labels that produce game and anime music?
I'll bet you anything that Mrs. Rosen has no clue that 99% of the stuff in my MP3 collection even exists, much less where it came from in the first place. I'm sure this holds true for a huge amount of other music made outside the USA, and even some that is made here.
if the RIAA goes bankrupt from the rampant internet piracy of their intellectual property, the whole world will suffer, because all sources of music will dry up.
Riiiight....I think I just addressed that above. The RIAA can die and rot for all I care.
They want ISPs to pay money to (in effect) legalize online music piracy, which will in turn raise ISP costs, nudge even more users into P2P, further stressing networks and raising bills even higher for ISPs?
Right....Somehow, I don't see Time Warner/AOL/Earthlink/Any other ISP. exactly jumping for joy at the prospect.
Or maybe you could live life to its fullest, and stop whining about people wasting time on television?
At least write a letter to your local newspaper or something, instead of posting on Slashdot, of all places...
This might suprise you, but fanatically loving one show does not a couch potato make. A huge amount of people watch TV in moderation, something you should practice rather than saying "kill your television" over one cause/show.
Please. They don't get behind anime at all unless it's DBZ. They made a half-hearted attempt with Cowboy Bebop, and they're probably going to make a half-hearted attempt with Lupin III.
Lupin's not even on the air here yet, and as for Cowboy Bebop...It's never shared the same block of time with DBZ, and probably never will. Further, i'm not sure what qualifies it as "half-hearted" to you, as they've gone through the entire series at least 3 or 4 times now, and except for some possible small niggling differences, it's been identical to the (dubbed) DVD version.
Here's the problem, as I see it: The people who don't know any better and think that DBZ is quality programming will watch it, bad dubbing, heinous editing and all.
If you don't like it, don't watch the damn show. It is what it is- an action cartoon. People watch it for the fight scenes, a bit of humor, and to just be entertained. If you want something deeper, then watch the right show for the job, which is not DBZ, most times.
Yes, Funimation did a horrid job on the dubbing and such, but some of us don't need perfection to get a little enjoyment. If it really bothers you so, go watch the original Japanese version and leave the rest of us alone.
The people who prefer good anime and wish that CN would show it occasionally get their wish. Then they see that their favority anime has received the Cartoon Network Treatment, cringe in pretentious terror, and change the channel.
Again, if you don't like them so much, don't watch the freaking shows! Nobody's forcing you to tune to CN.
I love how you seem to think that Cartoon Network does all the dubbing and editing, too....Try reading the credits on most of the shows sometime. On Cowboy Bebop, for instance, you should be blaming Bandai and or ZRO Limit Productions for most of the percieved damage.
Expect my die-cast metal Voltron to arrive later this afternoon, and destroy you by firing lion heads into your...spleen...or something.
Seriously though, at least for Inuyasha....
In some of the episodes i've seen lately-
A small girl dies in a fire, and comes back as a vengeful spirit to murder her brother and mother.
A very close friend of the main character's was killed in the past, and is resurrected by a witch as a sort of pieced-together zombie, then proceeding to try and violently murder Inuyasha.
An evil mask comes to life, and goes around possessing bodies and literally melting random people to get more useable material to make a body from.
Does this sound like kid-show material to you, really? Also, I was never able to force myself to watch Sailor Moon, but i'm pretty sure it's nothing like the two. I have a feeling you saw that there's a school-age girl as a character, and immediately formed the impression.
Oh, and Cowboy Bebop is "maybe" adolescent? Watch the whole series and say that, I dare you.
Any "uncut" versions of CN anime that i've seen usually involve replacing "destroy" with "kill", adding swearing back in, changing blood back to red, or other such trivial things....Nothing that someone who's just sitting back to enjoy watching would really notice.
Specifically, i've seen unaltered (dubbed DVD versions) of Gundam Wing and Cowboy Bebop, and I honestly can't tell the difference without nitpicking.
I'm not trying to troll here, really i'm not, but I think some purists want totally uncut versions...just because.
That way, we can see anime series UNCUT the way it was shown in Japan, even if we have to dub the voices.
American and Canadian studios have already been doing dubbing for years, so,I'm not sure what you mean here...Fan-produced dubbing? If so, I wouldn't bother, after the quality of most fan-subs/dubs i've watched.
Your comment about innovation rings true with the reality issue, too...Seems like the media and politicians can't tell the difference between "ultra violent" and "real" lately, what with raising all the fuss over games like GTA3.
At any rate, being anti-social doesn't seem like much fun to me, but I guess that's one more reason i'm glad not to be a teen anymore:)
"mass produced crap for children under age fourteen"
Any examples of this for us, pray tell?
They've put out some many games that don't fall in that category, i'd be hard pressed to ever list them all.
Let's see....Perfect Dark, Goldeneye, Pilotwings, Super Smash Bros.(both versions, you cannot convince me this isn't wide-audience, it's been like crack to everyone I see play), 3 Zelda games now, Super Monkey Ball, Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, Mario Tennis....
You need to really expand your horizons if all you think's out there is "mass produced crap".
I think this quote by Miyamoto from the article sums it up best-
""People often talk about Grand Theft Auto. But I am not sure whether that sort of extreme subject matter is always appropriate. They also talk about the future of games being a kind of virtual reality. But I am not convinced that being more realistic makes better games."
More power to him. GTA3 is all bloody and "realistic", to be sure, but there's a reason why i've always seemed to have a copy of a Mario Bros. game at hand for the better part of 10 years now. I play games to escape reality, not to simulate it.
I'm 22 years old, and I think there's enough blood, guts, and violence in life already...Give me something bright, intricate, and engaging(and yes, "kiddy") with his name on it above the latest 3D shooter junk any day.
" When you start having even games and sequels derived from PC games coming out (at least at first) only on console, of course things are going to drop."
"Of course, FFX is one PS2... but I still want it on PC. Too many gaming companies are jumping the console bandwagon and leaving loyal PC fans in the dust."
I'm not really sure why you hold up Final Fantasy X as a prime example here, but you have, so my apologies if I fixate on Square....Squaresoft was not, is not, and will likely never be a primarily PC gaming company for the foreseable future. Other than the basic concepts behind almost all RPG's, none of their games were derived from PC titles.
FF1 -> FF7 were all released on consoles before they ever touched PC gaming, as well as 3 Gameboy titles and FF Mystic Quest for the SNES.
To date, they have only released 3 games on the PC- FF7, FF8, and FFXI(Only in Japan so far, I believe).
How exactly does this equate to them "leaving loyal PC fans in the dust"? You should be glad console game makers continue to release anything on the PC, considering the lackluster reception of most ports for not being what "loyal PC fans" think a game should be like - especialy Squaresoft.
When the PC versions of FF7 and FF8 came out, I must've seen at least 5 or 6 reviews from major magazines that spent 50-75% of their space moaning about how horribly low-res the graphics were, that the stories were too linear, too much micro-management, etc - All things that were essentially basic components of being a PSX game and a game in the Final Fantasy series.
This isn't something that's limited only to FF games, either, as almost every review i've seen of a PSX/other console port usually can't resist throwing in something about how horribly different the game style is from "real" PC games.
You say you want FFX on the PC now, but if it is released in that form, I can guarantee that you or other "loyal PC fans" will soon be heard to say:
"Too much FMV!"
"Too many discs/Too much HD space needed!"
"Why didn't they redraw all the game graphics and backgrounds in the entire game to look perfect on a PC monitor?"
"Why wasn't this control and menu system designed better for a mouse and keyboard?"
"Why can't I wander around wherever I want? This game's too linear!"
And so on.
Personally, i'd be fed up with releasing PC games by now, if I was Squaresoft, after all the bitching that goes on after they release one. I'm amazed that there is or soon will be a PC version of FFXI.
That entire review reeks of pre-existing bias against Star Trek and SF in general....
I mean, this guy's a "professional" movie critic, and he starts the review by saying:
"'m sitting there during "Star Trek: Nemesis," the 10th "Star Trek" movie, and I'm smiling like a good sport and trying to get with the dialogue about the isotronic Ruritronic signature from planet Kolarus III, or whatever the hell they were saying, maybe it was "positronic,"
Or:
"and I'm thinking, life is too short to sit through 10 movies in which the power is shifted around on these shields. The shields have been losing power for decades now, and here it is the Second Generation of Star Trek, and they still haven't fixed them. Maybe they should get new batteries."
Not to mention the excerpt you posted about electricity....Technobabble and fanboyism aside, you'd see a wall panel removed to show cables and wiring, or hear something about a damaged power conduit practically every other episode.
Anyhow, I think it's a good example of why you should judge things for yourself....Don't trust reviewers like Ebert to point out details, at least if he's going to write like that.
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"Naturally you'd still have lamers on p2p, but then these people would never use a pay site anyway, even if meant wasting ten hours to find and download the same songs that the pay site sold for seven dollars."
Free is still free. So what if it takes a little longer...People just queue up a ton of titles, let it run overnight, and sort out the carnage in the morning.
I can't imagine the major labels having anything i'd want anyways, besides a song or two. Most of the stuff I listen to is either jazz, classical, independent artists, or rather esoteric(video game soundtracks, anime music, comedy songs, etc.).
Case in point, I have an FTP session going with about 4 gigs of song transfers queued right now....Going at 5 K/sec or so, but hell, I have broadband, so does it really matter if it takes a week or two to finish? I already have a huge amount of music, and getting a slow but steady stream of new files is good enough for me.
Overpeer's web site seems to be completely dead? Can't connect with a browser, ping, or traceroute at all.
Mandrake has this capability too, since at least version 8.0 or 8.1. A few clicks in the Control Center, and all Windows fonts on the machine are scanned for, found, installed, and available.
A real "purist geek" uses whatever the best tool for the job is, and doesn't let silly prejudices get in the way.
Why choose between CLI or GUI?
Use both!
Yes, this is a troll, but what the hell, eh?
Sadly, the average broadband dorm-dwelling college student could, if s/he had enough storage space, download 600 songs in 20 seconds.
Let's see...
600 songs at an avg. of 2 megs per song = ~1.2 gigabytes = 60 megs/sec needed to download 600 songs in 20 seconds.
Excuse me while I laugh in your face. First of all, the average college student is on a 10/100 megabit ethernet network(as am I), and I can only get 10-12 megs/sec tops transferring from someone else on the network, that being an extreme rarity - my average speeds are more like 2-4 megs/sec.
And that's to say nothing of stuff like Kaaza, WinMX, Bearshare, Gnutella, etc. I'm lucky to hit 300 K/sec from someone, and most days, it's more like 0.3 K/sec.
I swear to god, i'll eat the keyboard i'm typing this on, if you can find a "average broadband dorm-dwelling college student"(i.e not gigabit ethernet, direct T1 connections, or something crazy) that gets regular downloads at 60 megabytes/second.
Unfortunately, it's not uncommon for many college students to have hundreds of GigaBytes of MP3 songs that they did not pay for. It's all too confusing, and most students don't even understand what they're doing is wrong.
It sounds to me like you have absolutely no idea of the scale of the terms you're using. I'm at an extremely "geek" school(RIT), and even here, out of those enthusiastic about filesharing, i'll bet you anything there's only 100-200 people max with 100 gig+ MP3 collections....Out of a good 12,000 students or so. How is that "not uncommon"?
I'd question the policies of your school, if they hired someone as misinformed as you.
Remember the eFront debacle a few years ago? Now THERE was a .com bombout to be proud of.
"Supposedly, you are supposed to be able to view a video interview with some guy, but there are no links to that interview. You've got to buy the CD."
Actually, yes there are. Granted, the links are not extremely visible, but if you'd at least waited for all the images to load, you'd have seen them.
http://www.ufomag.co.uk/Euro56kps.wmv
http://www.ufomag.co.uk/Euro150kps.wmv
25 meg files. I'm in the process of downloading a copy as we speak.
Like it or not, everything musical you purchase has an association with the RIAA
Hell no.
The vast majority of my MP3 collection is game and anime soundtracks(Yes, i'm a total geek.).
Are you trying to tell me that the RIAA controls places like NTT Publishing, DigiCube, or for that matter, any labels that produce game and anime music?
I'll bet you anything that Mrs. Rosen has no clue that 99% of the stuff in my MP3 collection even exists, much less where it came from in the first place. I'm sure this holds true for a huge amount of other music made outside the USA, and even some that is made here.
if the RIAA goes bankrupt from the rampant internet piracy of their intellectual property, the whole world will suffer, because all sources of music will dry up.
Riiiight....I think I just addressed that above. The RIAA can die and rot for all I care.
So, let me get this straight....
They want ISPs to pay money to (in effect) legalize online music piracy, which will in turn raise ISP costs, nudge even more users into P2P, further stressing networks and raising bills even higher for ISPs?
Right....Somehow, I don't see Time Warner/AOL/Earthlink/Any other ISP. exactly jumping for joy at the prospect.
Nice try, Hillary, but back to the drawing board.
Wow, another anime basher who obviously hasn't watched a single cell of anime in his life!
:)
You just go right on thinking that, the rest of us can enjoy some decent entertainment
I'd believe you if stuff like Neverwinter Nights, Unreal Tournament 2003, Jedi Knight 2, Civ 3, Mechwarrior 4, Warcraft 3 didn't take ~1-3 gigs each....
You cannot tell me you're fitting "all the greatest and latest" games and WinXP AND any other programs AND possibly some music into 10 gigs or less.
You're the one complaining about something that takes seconds to change....Who's the real idiot here, "mate"? :)
:)
No big deal, really, seeing baseless complaints about the (changeable) Windows look and feel of some Linux apps gets annoying after a while, though.
That's all
I'm not into having Windows look & feel. It's bad enough I have to use it occasionally. Those candy coloured buttons, uggh!
So change the theme of KDE/Gnome/Windowmaker/whatever you're using. How #$%^#&^ hard is that?
Sheesh...
Would you rather nobody was taking action at all?
Or that you weren't getting substantially fewer marketing calls?
How/When would you suggest it all be done?
Or maybe you could live life to its fullest, and stop whining about people wasting time on television?
At least write a letter to your local newspaper or something, instead of posting on Slashdot, of all places...
This might suprise you, but fanatically loving one show does not a couch potato make. A huge amount of people watch TV in moderation, something you should practice rather than saying "kill your television" over one cause/show.
Please. They don't get behind anime at all unless it's DBZ. They made a half-hearted attempt with Cowboy Bebop, and they're probably going to make a half-hearted attempt with Lupin III.
Lupin's not even on the air here yet, and as for Cowboy Bebop...It's never shared the same block of time with DBZ, and probably never will. Further, i'm not sure what qualifies it as "half-hearted" to you, as they've gone through the entire series at least 3 or 4 times now, and except for some possible small niggling differences, it's been identical to the (dubbed) DVD version.
Here's the problem, as I see it:
The people who don't know any better and think that DBZ is quality programming will watch it, bad dubbing, heinous editing and all.
If you don't like it, don't watch the damn show. It is what it is- an action cartoon. People watch it for the fight scenes, a bit of humor, and to just be entertained. If you want something deeper, then watch the right show for the job, which is not DBZ, most times.
Yes, Funimation did a horrid job on the dubbing and such, but some of us don't need perfection to get a little enjoyment. If it really bothers you so, go watch the original Japanese version and leave the rest of us alone.
The people who prefer good anime and wish that CN would show it occasionally get their wish. Then they see that their favority anime has received the Cartoon Network Treatment, cringe in pretentious terror, and change the channel.
Again, if you don't like them so much, don't watch the freaking shows! Nobody's forcing you to tune to CN.
I love how you seem to think that Cartoon Network does all the dubbing and editing, too....Try reading the credits on most of the shows sometime. On Cowboy Bebop, for instance, you should be blaming Bandai and or ZRO Limit Productions for most of the percieved damage.
You dare mock Voltron!!??
Expect my die-cast metal Voltron to arrive later this afternoon, and destroy you by firing lion heads into your...spleen...or something.
Seriously though, at least for Inuyasha....
In some of the episodes i've seen lately-
A small girl dies in a fire, and comes back as a vengeful spirit to murder her brother and mother.
A very close friend of the main character's was killed in the past, and is resurrected by a witch as a sort of pieced-together zombie, then proceeding to try and violently murder Inuyasha.
An evil mask comes to life, and goes around possessing bodies and literally melting random people to get more useable material to make a body from.
Does this sound like kid-show material to you, really? Also, I was never able to force myself to watch Sailor Moon, but i'm pretty sure it's nothing like the two. I have a feeling you saw that there's a school-age girl as a character, and immediately formed the impression.
Oh, and Cowboy Bebop is "maybe" adolescent? Watch the whole series and say that, I dare you.
Any "uncut" versions of CN anime that i've seen usually involve replacing "destroy" with "kill", adding swearing back in, changing blood back to red, or other such trivial things....Nothing that someone who's just sitting back to enjoy watching would really notice.
,I'm not sure what you mean here...Fan-produced dubbing? If so, I wouldn't bother, after the quality of most fan-subs/dubs i've watched.
Specifically, i've seen unaltered (dubbed DVD versions) of Gundam Wing and Cowboy Bebop, and I honestly can't tell the difference without nitpicking.
I'm not trying to troll here, really i'm not, but I think some purists want totally uncut versions...just because.
That way, we can see anime series UNCUT the way it was shown in Japan, even if we have to dub the voices.
American and Canadian studios have already been doing dubbing for years, so
Quite true :)
:)
Your comment about innovation rings true with the reality issue, too...Seems like the media and politicians can't tell the difference between "ultra violent" and "real" lately, what with raising all the fuss over games like GTA3.
At any rate, being anti-social doesn't seem like much fun to me, but I guess that's one more reason i'm glad not to be a teen anymore
"mass produced crap for children under age fourteen"
Any examples of this for us, pray tell?
They've put out some many games that don't fall in that category, i'd be hard pressed to ever list them all.
Let's see....Perfect Dark, Goldeneye, Pilotwings, Super Smash Bros.(both versions, you cannot convince me this isn't wide-audience, it's been like crack to everyone I see play), 3 Zelda games now, Super Monkey Ball, Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, Mario Tennis....
You need to really expand your horizons if all you think's out there is "mass produced crap".
I think this quote by Miyamoto from the article sums it up best-
""People often talk about Grand Theft Auto. But I am not sure whether that sort of extreme subject matter is always appropriate. They also talk about the future of games being a kind of virtual reality. But I am not convinced that being more realistic makes better games."
More power to him. GTA3 is all bloody and "realistic", to be sure, but there's a reason why i've always seemed to have a copy of a Mario Bros. game at hand for the better part of 10 years now. I play games to escape reality, not to simulate it.
I'm 22 years old, and I think there's enough blood, guts, and violence in life already...Give me something bright, intricate, and engaging(and yes, "kiddy") with his name on it above the latest 3D shooter junk any day.
" When you start having even games and sequels derived from PC games coming out (at least at first) only on console, of course things are going to drop."
"Of course, FFX is one PS2... but I still want it on PC. Too many gaming companies are jumping the console bandwagon and leaving loyal PC fans in the dust."
I'm not really sure why you hold up Final Fantasy X as a prime example here, but you have, so my apologies if I fixate on Square....Squaresoft was not, is not, and will likely never be a primarily PC gaming company for the foreseable future. Other than the basic concepts behind almost all RPG's, none of their games were derived from PC titles.
FF1 -> FF7 were all released on consoles before they ever touched PC gaming, as well as 3 Gameboy titles and FF Mystic Quest for the SNES.
To date, they have only released 3 games on the PC- FF7, FF8, and FFXI(Only in Japan so far, I believe).
How exactly does this equate to them "leaving loyal PC fans in the dust"? You should be glad console game makers continue to release anything on the PC, considering the lackluster reception of most ports for not being what "loyal PC fans" think a game should be like - especialy Squaresoft.
When the PC versions of FF7 and FF8 came out, I must've seen at least 5 or 6 reviews from major magazines that spent 50-75% of their space moaning about how horribly low-res the graphics were, that the stories were too linear, too much micro-management, etc - All things that were essentially basic components of being a PSX game and a game in the Final Fantasy series.
This isn't something that's limited only to FF games, either, as almost every review i've seen of a PSX/other console port usually can't resist throwing in something about how horribly different the game style is from "real" PC games.
You say you want FFX on the PC now, but if it is released in that form, I can guarantee that you or other "loyal PC fans" will soon be heard to say:
"Too much FMV!"
"Too many discs/Too much HD space needed!"
"Why didn't they redraw all the game graphics and backgrounds in the entire game to look perfect on a PC monitor?"
"Why wasn't this control and menu system designed better for a mouse and keyboard?"
"Why can't I wander around wherever I want? This game's too linear!"
And so on.
Personally, i'd be fed up with releasing PC games by now, if I was Squaresoft, after all the bitching that goes on after they release one. I'm amazed that there is or soon will be a PC version of FFXI.
That entire review reeks of pre-existing bias against Star Trek and SF in general....
I mean, this guy's a "professional" movie critic, and he starts the review by saying:
"'m sitting there during "Star Trek: Nemesis," the 10th "Star Trek" movie, and I'm smiling like a good sport and trying to get with the dialogue about the isotronic Ruritronic signature from planet Kolarus III, or whatever the hell they were saying, maybe it was "positronic,"
Or:
"and I'm thinking, life is too short to sit through 10 movies in which the power is shifted around on these shields. The shields have been losing power for decades now, and here it is the Second Generation of Star Trek, and they still haven't fixed them. Maybe they should get new batteries."
Not to mention the excerpt you posted about electricity....Technobabble and fanboyism aside, you'd see a wall panel removed to show cables and wiring, or hear something about a damaged power conduit practically every other episode.
Anyhow, I think it's a good example of why you should judge things for yourself....Don't trust reviewers like Ebert to point out details, at least if he's going to write like that.
Dear lord....If you're going to karma whore, at least take 5 or 10 minutes to put some paragraph breaks in. That's painful to even begin to read.
and by EULA, can't run office XP on anything but windows OS.
Wrong.
As quoted somewhere above, from Codeweaver's licensing FAQ:
"Q. Can Microsoft prevent CodeWeaver's customers from running Microsoft applications on Linux?
A. No. Microsoft's end-user licenses do not preclude operating their applications under other operating systems. Were Microsoft to attempt to prohibit such usage, by requiring that Microsoft products be run only on the Windows OS, they would be in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The Sherman Act precludes making the usage of a non-monopoly product dependent on the purchase of a monopoly product. Microsoft has been convicted of monopolist practices under the Sherman Act regarding their operating systems. As a result, they cannot legally make Microsoft Office dependent on having a Windows OS license."