". Nothing new comes out of MS, they NEED stuff to copy. "
Copy from whom? Not OS community that's for sure. Ever wondered how is that just about half of successful OS projects are direct recreations of existing MS products?
Seriously, only blind man would claim that OS is a source of innovation. EVERY ONE of their packages is some sort of implementation of an existing ( sometimes for decades) commercial product.
No shit. There is hardly any market for laptop wannabes that cost $3000 !!!
Who in their right mind would buy completely underpowered box like that for such a price simply because it is smaller...
It is really fast on Windows 2000.
It crashed on my while I was trying to change my default fonts but still, this thing with Mozilla is definately going somewhere...
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Are you sure we are talking about the same browser ?
IE works almost flawlessly and certainly better than any version of Netscape (old or new)
Well, if you look at most newer X based,open source apps most of them are almost direct copies of what's available on Windows platform.
MIcrosoft might not be the greatest innovator out there but surely, they have following.
"Most Europeans are still pretty pissed about Mr. Presidents attitude problem. "
So ? He is here to serve Americans and not Europeans.
"If Mr. Bush and his cronies however apply the same rethoric as the one applied when they canceled Kyoto then we are all in for a new, pretty nasty trade war. "
Hey, I was all for NOT ratifying Kyoto and I know quite a bit people who were just as much opposed to it.
I don't think giving up certain US liberties just to avoid pissing off Europeans is worth it.
Why don't you raise YOUR prices some more.
More people will stop using cars and that will hopefully offset greater numbers of Americans enjoying their cars.
Don't fell like doing it ?
Then fuck off...
"His off-hand dismissal of dot-coms who "gave away" their valuable creations because they believed in the folly of advertiser support at best ignores the facts and at worst is a patently self-serving straw man argument."
Yeah, and your reason for their fall is ??
Selv-serving argument,heh ?
No it is a fact, tons of dot-coms failed because business model they were trying to follow did not work out.
In many cases that business was providing medium for advertising.
His argument was very much relevant.
How is releasing the teaser different from all these free demos commercial companies make available to the public ?
"show that money can be made in the content industry without restrictions against sharing the product. "
Come on, you know damn well that if people can download programs or copy music CDs from their friends without breaking the law, it will be end of industry.
"The folklore I heard was that the NT team ported the Presentation Manager GUI to NT 3.x. That was scotched, first in favor of the Win 3.1 GUI, and then again in favor of the Win95 GUI, apparently from orders of Gates himself."
If this is true, then once again Gates brings some sanity and sound business judgement into his company.
Why in the world would anyone want to have different GUI on their servers than 99% of workstations just because bunch of developers thought it would be cool to have something like that.
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". Nothing new comes out of MS, they NEED stuff to copy. "
Copy from whom? Not OS community that's for sure. Ever wondered how is that just about half of successful OS projects are direct recreations of existing MS products?
Seriously, only blind man would claim that OS is a source of innovation. EVERY ONE of their packages is some sort of implementation of an existing ( sometimes for decades) commercial product.
Hell sure they do as long we are not talking about their products ..
"social balance. "
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Which is a result of capitalism and free commerce
Because it works well ?
No shit. There is hardly any market for laptop wannabes that cost $3000 !!!
Who in their right mind would buy completely underpowered box like that for such a price simply because it is smaller...
It is really fast on Windows 2000.
It crashed on my while I was trying to change my default fonts but still, this thing with Mozilla is definately going somewhere
Are you sure we are talking about the same browser ?
IE works almost flawlessly and certainly better than any version of Netscape (old or new)
Well, if you look at most newer X based ,open source apps most of them are almost direct copies of what's available on Windows platform.
MIcrosoft might not be the greatest innovator out there but surely, they have following.
What racial stereotypes ?
It is a serious question.
"Most Europeans are still pretty pissed about Mr. Presidents attitude problem. "
So ? He is here to serve Americans and not Europeans.
"If Mr. Bush and his cronies however apply the same rethoric as the one applied when they canceled Kyoto then we are all in for a new, pretty nasty trade war. "
Hey, I was all for NOT ratifying Kyoto and I know quite a bit people who were just as much opposed to it.
I don't think giving up certain US liberties just to avoid pissing off Europeans is worth it.
Why don't you raise YOUR prices some more. ...
More people will stop using cars and that will hopefully offset greater numbers of Americans enjoying their cars.
Don't fell like doing it ?
Then fuck off
Who is to say 'we can't' ?
Hehehe ... off-topic , sure as hell Gore is very much off-topic now and hopefully will stay there.
Hey, call me when RedHat or any other OS company even gets close to being as profitable as Microsoft is.
"His off-hand dismissal of dot-coms who "gave away" their valuable creations because they believed in the folly of advertiser support at best ignores the facts and at worst is a patently self-serving straw man argument."
,heh ?
Yeah, and your reason for their fall is ??
Selv-serving argument
No it is a fact, tons of dot-coms failed because business model they were trying to follow did not work out.
In many cases that business was providing medium for advertising.
His argument was very much relevant.
"there would be immediate and dier consequences"
What kind of consequences ?
"After many such attempts by Altec Int. to fight them on this and many other technologies, they eventually had to give in."
Why ?
"Eazel has burned through at least $13-million in venture capital "
What we are talking here is a first class material for this site.
How is releasing the teaser different from all these free demos commercial companies make available to the public ?
"show that money can be made in the content industry without restrictions against sharing the product. "
Come on, you know damn well that if people can download programs or copy music CDs from their friends without breaking the law, it will be end of industry.
"2) Viva la comunista! Down with the capitalist regime! "
The king is dead. Long live the king.
Well, it sucks but surely beats being raped by a bunch of goverment drones .
Why don't we take it all the way and have a referendum on possible availability of all stuff for free ?
Well, isn't the point of OS to simply work instead of serving as an example of "philosophy" ?
"The folklore I heard was that the NT team ported the Presentation Manager GUI to NT 3.x. That was scotched, first in favor of the Win 3.1 GUI, and then again in favor of the Win95 GUI, apparently from orders of Gates himself."
If this is true, then once again Gates brings some sanity and sound business judgement into his company.
Why in the world would anyone want to have different GUI on their servers than 99% of workstations just because bunch of developers thought it would be cool to have something like that.
No, it is not. Piracy is not in a mainstream culture there.
In another words, most people don't even know they can download pirated versions.
Well, more often than not it is advise from legal team that results in new cases being filled.