is that unlike MS products, Linux products do not integrate with each other. Outlook can use Word as an email editor, but can Evolution use OpenOffice.org's Word Processing program as an email editor. There already is some Linux integration with PHP and MySQL and other things, but how often to F/OSS products integrate with each other?
GnuCash can integrate with many databases, but can it use OpenOffice.org to export to office file formats for reports and other things?
Can programs use Netscape or Mozilla or Firefox to display HTML content?
Can the various F/OSS developers work with each other? I tend to think so, and it very well may be possible to do so.
That was my original idea to use a low end X86 processor. Embedded Linux already exists for it, and if SCO gets their way we can always change to BSD Unix.
Anyway an original socket 7 X86 chip should work fine for low end 911 Computer Automated Dispatch. That is if they still sell them.;)
is send out signals to activate alarm clocks, lights, bells, sirens, speakers, and display a message on a computer with details of the 911 emergancy.
We are talking about something that an original Palm Pilot or security alarm system can do. An 8 bit processor may be too underpowered, but I believe this is more of a 16/32 bit hybrid like a 68K processor. If you examine ADT, and other boxes that security alarm systems use, you won't find the most powerful processors in those. Maybe a 16 or 32 bit processor with low end speed.
Now building a 911 CAD box with a Pentium 4 is overkill, and unless you really need the horsepower, it would be overpriced.
You have missed the point, I wanted to make a low cost, no frills, version of a 911 CAD box. Other companies have this box but charge $1000USD to $4000USD or more for each box, and some emergency providers cannot afford that.
I want to build a low cost Computer Automated Dispatch system with just the basics for low income firehouses, police stations, and hospitals. This chip might just fit the bill. I was going to go with Transmeta or a low end X86 processor.
We need a Linux Truth website, one that dispells the myths, exagerations, and lies that Microsoft spews about Linux and has fallacious research done on that does not have enough details to be replicated. Because they do not release the details of the conditions to have someone replicate the results, it is not a valid scientific research.
if you insist on using Windows, get used to learning to live with malware. Sooner or later it will get installed on your system. The only secure Windows system is one without network access in any way, shape, or form.
I downloaded the XP SP1a on a Linux box after reformatting my machines and then reinstalled them without net access and applied the CDR the Linux box burned. I also had antivirus tools, software firewalls, etc to install.
Malware can be installed by visiting the wrong web page, try spelling microsoft.com wrong sometime and see what the bogus site does to your system. If you think only ActiveX does this, what about XPI in Mozilla, malware is written in both ActiveX and XPI bundles now.
Make a wrong turn on the information highway and get owned.
My Linux box is fine, except that it suffers from RPM and PKG hell. Which is about as bad as DLL hell, I guess?
I want to start a company writing F/OSS but do not want to go broke. This is a lifesaver for me! Better than a starburst, which is what I had before and it does not last as long as a lifesaver. Anyway thanks for the info.
#1 F/OSS software does not help terrorism, the flaws in Windows helps terrorists break into it more easily. If everyone ran Linux or *BSD Unix, there would not be so many crack attempts or malware infections.
#2 IP Theft, most commercial developers steal from open source and free source code and then claim it as their own. Since commercial developers do not release their code to the public, it is hard to tell what they stole. Tons of "free source code" web sites out there to support my theory on that.
#3 Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) software has a higher TCO over OSS due to licensing issues, support costs, and the hardware upgrades required to run the COTS packages. F/OSS has virtually no licensing issues, a low cost support package (free if you get your support off Internet sources), and runs on older hardware mostly (Linux still runs fine on 486 and Pentium 1 systems).
I love the Linux Mainframe comparison, they compare Linux on an IBM mainframe to Windows 2003 Server on a dual Xenon server. Then cite the Linux machine as having a higher TCO becuase of the cost of the mainframe, the power bill, the maintenance contract, etc.
Or how about the Windows vs. Linux report that does not put a cost on the security breaches and malware attacks on Windows systems?
I recall all of those DOS based "2400 to 9600 baud converter" programs that people used to upload to BBSes. When run it created a virus or trojan on the system. This is nothing new.
File sharing networks are full of files like that which are too small to be the real deal, yet people are tricked into downloading them, thinking it is what they are looking for.
This is not a problem for me, until I start getting support calls, or emails from people who got infected. Please clean my system so I can get work done, they ask.
Worst case I had was almost 49 trojans/viruses on one system that had someone running a file sharing program, and their daughter downloaded all the crap she could find and ran it. So I deleted the file sharing program and all the infected files. I installed the latest free antivirus, antitrojan, anti-spyware, tools and cleaned the system. Somehow it is infected again because they complain that it is running too slow now.
On one of my test systems, I got into a file sharing network, and started to download random files I searched for. I had several malware detectors. Most of the files downloaded were malware and got deleted. I'd say a good 87% of them were infected. No files where run or kept, I was just testing the malware detectors. The hard drive was reformatted later on.
People get what they pay for, and if they try to cheat the system, they may get violated by malware.
I could not afford one from Apple, nor auction sites, so I bought a $4USD white plastic notebook hat I can put papers into and got some markers and used an old keyboard keycaps and an old MS-Mouse and made my own Powerbook. L@@K, it works 100%, runs OSX as well. Only downside is I am now being sued by Apple for making a Powerbook clone without their permission.;)
You confuse Christianity with a small sample of people from that religion.
While I am a follower of Loki, I am amused by your deceit and trickery.;) Your ad hominine fallacies reveal much about your character. Your fallacies show flaws in your logic. Therefore your logic is flawed.
Christianity is based on truths, do unto others as you would have them do unto you, love your enemies, etc. Like Islam, and many other religions, those truths have been distorted or forgotten or ignored by the followers. This is where we have a breakdown. Thus you base the actions of a few to the entire population, which is called prejudging. This prejudging is what bigots do. Thus, it is logical to conclude that you are indeed a bigot. Thus you are also a hypocite. Should I be the same as you, I would brand all members of your religion as bigots or hyporcites, but I will not. Doing so is a fallacy, which I will not commit.
Christianity has contributed much to society, many Christian run homeless shelters do a lot of good work. Feeding, clothing, and taking care of the poor. Many Christian organizations also take care of the poor in other countries. More so than any other religion. This philisophy came from Jesus hiself, to take care of the least of your brothers. He said "What so ever you do to the least of your brothers, you do unto me." Doing so taught a philisophy of taking care of the poor. This in itself is a philisophical truth. You apparently are too blind to see this. Many books are written on Christian ideas, like servent leadership, which contributed much to literature. In fact one of the greatest stories ever told was inspired by Christianity, the story of "King Arthur". Many good litature books, which of course you are also too blind to see. Hatred has blinded you, apparently. Let go of that hate.
I recall a Roman Emperor Constantine I, who said that if God helped him win the next battle, which the odds were against him, that he would change the offical religion of the empire. God was on his side and he won. That in itself is evidence of God doing something. There are other examples but your hatred has blinded you to them.
I am a Corporate user, I can provide proof of ownership. I am able to get a replacement disk now, but someone at MS did not want to do their job right or did not know. Usually this is the case, and you have to call back until you get someone who wants to help you.
Microsoft does outsource, or so I heard, and they are not always well trained.
As for VB 3.0 replacement disks, I am SOL because they reached an end of life cycle years ago.
It does not matter, I migrated my server to Linux, some day I may also migrate my workstations as well. Of course I can always use a disk from one of the other workstations or the MSDN package, but the fact is I shouldn't have this sort of problem from MS.
There is, the Corp edition does not have the product activation feature so corporations can install it.
I call it what everyone else calls it. I also call XFree86 as X-Windows, which you may not agree with either.
When you install it, it says it is Windows XP Pro. Computer slang, which I use, calls it XP Pro Corp Edition because it does not have product activation.
we cannot backup commercial software? My Windows XP Pro Corp edition disk always gets scratched, if I did not make a backup copy it would have been costing me more money to buy another copy. I do not think that Microsoft replaces disks anymore, last time I tried I was told to buy another copy.
My Visual BASIC 3.0 floppy disks suffered from bit-rott, and are unusable. I was going to make a old 386 with WFW 3.11 and MS-DOS 6.22 with VB 3.0 to develop 16 bit apps, but that is impossible now.
Because people cannot legally make a backup of the videos they buy, many are forced to losing a DVD that got ruined by a scratch. So they either rent the DVD or download a copy of it off of a file sharing network.
I have seen the DVD backup software, it tells the viewer that they are viewing a copy and has the web address of the company that made the DVD backup software when a copied DVD is viewed.
I run Linspire and OpenStep, easy enough for me to use and configure. No need for me to use OSX anyway.
For $450USD I can buy a very good low end PC Clone using an AMD processor at 2.0 Ghz, and an 80G hard drive, and 512M of RAM, DVD+RW drive, GeForce FX video chipset, onboard LAN, USB 2.0, Firewire, etc sans an OS and for $50USD I can buy a copy of Lindows, and use F/OSS software for the rest of it. So $500 total, and what do I have to spend to get all that with a Macintosh? $1799 for the low end G5 model. They may be worth it, but they are still out of my price range.
The iMac and eMac are underpowered for me, and not expandable enough for me.
to move F/OSS to Windows. It helps the migration to Linux a lot better.
Linux needs to improve to become a better desktop OS.
Many organizations do not use Linux and F/OSS becuase they have not been certified for use with their profession, like accounting etc. So there needs to be certification of Linux and F/OSS products. If the organization doing the certification is in the pocket of MS, fat chance of that happening.
I have three SE models in my basement. One of them is an SE/30 which I was going to install OpenBSD on as soon as I upgraded the hard drive to something bigger than 80M. Now I have a use for them besides that Fish Tank case mod.;)
in a humoris manner, it is a personality flaw of mine.
Don't take everything I say too seriously, I am after all posting in character. That character being a Space Pirate from 4096AD who went back in the past to the late 20th and early 21st century and became a computer software developer who is now disabled and out of a job. So I know the future, and am posting based on that knowledge.
MS puts Spyware in Media Player and other Windows programs. How hard would it be then to modify the Windows Update to find the XP Key and send it in to Microsoft for examination if it is a valid key or not? That way they can see how many pirated copies of XP are out there. The personal info they collect this way can tell them what the typical pirate is like.
it takes critical thinking skills to see them. Skills that apparently you lack.
evaluating the effectiveness of said shared decoy media file in inhibiting the identification and retrieval of proprietary media via said automated search engines; and
Fancy talk for creating web pages and submitting them to web sites. Spammers have done this for as long as the WWW existed. How can you patent something like that?
interactively modifying process configuration parameters to influence the effectiveness of inhibiting said identification and retrieval of proprietary media via said automated search engines
Increasing one's rank in a search engine is nothing new either. Also Spammers have used these techquies since search engines existed. Again nothing new.
What these paragraphs that you keep quoting tell me, is that the patent is 100% pure BS. They can reword it all they want, it is still 100% pure BS and based on technquies and ideas that others have used since before the patent was filed.
Let me put it in words your feeble mind can comprehend:
If I file a patent for combining a virus with a spamming program to create a zombie network for sending out spam, it is a false patent. Even if nobody filed for it before, it has been in use before I filed it. I can use legalise and any other rewording that I like to use, but it is still 100% pure BS.
DRI goofed when they blew off IBM, MS "borrowed" Q-DOS/86-DOS (a CP/M ripoff) for $50K USD and turned around and sold it to IBM. There was nothing in the IBM contract that said MS could not sell their own version of the OS, so MS-DOS was licensed to Compaq, etc.
Microsoft, seeking to help Apple and perhaps create a new market to take money away from Lotus and WordPerfect, create Word and Excel for the Macintosh. While Word and Excel were miserable failures at first, like the Macintosh, they sold more and gained marketshare after being bundled with PC sales and in MSOffice as a big bundle.
Microsoft, seeking to license the OS the Macintosh uses from Apple, upon rejection of that deal, invent Interface Manager, which eventually led to Windows in 1985. A miserable failure at first.
IBM and Microsoft work together over OS/2, Microsoft puts Windows on a back burner and fully supports OS/2. After disagreements and political infighting with IBM, MS makes their own copy of OS/2, which leads to Windows NT 3.1, another miserable failure. Windows 3.1 takes off because MS bundles it with MS-DOS.
Windows is revamped, and Microsoft practially gives away development tools for it. After MS bundles Windows 3.1 with MS-DOS, sales of Windows go up and pass OS/2 sales.
MSOffice bundles Word and Excel with Powerpoint and Access. It is a hit for the growing Windows market. The failure for the Mac became a hit for Windows.
Microsoft revamps NT into a Server OS, fixes some bugs, and gains more support. NT Server starts to outsell Novel Netware, etc.
Windows 95 is born, using some of the OS/2 technology mixed in with Windows 3.X and MS-DOS 6.X code, Microsoft makes it a hit OS because it is bundled with new PCs and a big marketing drive tells everyone it is better than ever. Most of the Windows 3.X sales upgrade to Windows 95.
Microsoft eventually learns to bundle Internet Explorer with Windows 95OSR2 and 98, this hurts Netscape. Who needs a browser when Windows now includes one for free? Microsoft learned to leverage one Monopoly to create another. The same thing was done with Media Player to kill Real Player and Quicktime.
Microsoft, finding that it cannot grow any further in marketshare, tries to make it into the video game and ISP business. MSN and XBox are big losses, and money pits. MS Games don't sell as well as others. Proof that MS does not have what it takes to enter other markets and be successful unless they leverage their Monopoly to do so.
Recently MS made plans to enter Finacial Services, loans, credit cards, etc. Why? Because their OS and software marketshare cannot grow any bigger than it already has. Not unless they force everyone in that market to upgrade to a new platform, hence Longhorn is born.
So, tell me, how well can the typical Wal-Mart employee tell the difference between a real ID and a fake ID? If someone steals or dupes my Credit Card or ATM card and steals my Pin, whatever, and you card them and they have an ID that says it is me, but has their picture on it and not me, how can you tell? They can even dupe holgrams now.
Next I suppose you will tell me there has to be a thumbprint or retna scan ID to verify they are who they say they are.:)
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is that unlike MS products, Linux products do not integrate with each other. Outlook can use Word as an email editor, but can Evolution use OpenOffice.org's Word Processing program as an email editor. There already is some Linux integration with PHP and MySQL and other things, but how often to F/OSS products integrate with each other?
GnuCash can integrate with many databases, but can it use OpenOffice.org to export to office file formats for reports and other things?
Can programs use Netscape or Mozilla or Firefox to display HTML content?
Can the various F/OSS developers work with each other? I tend to think so, and it very well may be possible to do so.
That was my original idea to use a low end X86 processor. Embedded Linux already exists for it, and if SCO gets their way we can always change to BSD Unix.
;)
Anyway an original socket 7 X86 chip should work fine for low end 911 Computer Automated Dispatch. That is if they still sell them.
is send out signals to activate alarm clocks, lights, bells, sirens, speakers, and display a message on a computer with details of the 911 emergancy.
We are talking about something that an original Palm Pilot or security alarm system can do. An 8 bit processor may be too underpowered, but I believe this is more of a 16/32 bit hybrid like a 68K processor. If you examine ADT, and other boxes that security alarm systems use, you won't find the most powerful processors in those. Maybe a 16 or 32 bit processor with low end speed.
Now building a 911 CAD box with a Pentium 4 is overkill, and unless you really need the horsepower, it would be overpriced.
You have missed the point, I wanted to make a low cost, no frills, version of a 911 CAD box. Other companies have this box but charge $1000USD to $4000USD or more for each box, and some emergency providers cannot afford that.
I want to build a low cost Computer Automated Dispatch system with just the basics for low income firehouses, police stations, and hospitals. This chip might just fit the bill. I was going to go with Transmeta or a low end X86 processor.
We need a Linux Truth website, one that dispells the myths, exagerations, and lies that Microsoft spews about Linux and has fallacious research done on that does not have enough details to be replicated. Because they do not release the details of the conditions to have someone replicate the results, it is not a valid scientific research.
if you insist on using Windows, get used to learning to live with malware. Sooner or later it will get installed on your system. The only secure Windows system is one without network access in any way, shape, or form.
I downloaded the XP SP1a on a Linux box after reformatting my machines and then reinstalled them without net access and applied the CDR the Linux box burned. I also had antivirus tools, software firewalls, etc to install.
Malware can be installed by visiting the wrong web page, try spelling microsoft.com wrong sometime and see what the bogus site does to your system. If you think only ActiveX does this, what about XPI in Mozilla, malware is written in both ActiveX and XPI bundles now.
Make a wrong turn on the information highway and get owned.
My Linux box is fine, except that it suffers from RPM and PKG hell. Which is about as bad as DLL hell, I guess?
I want to start a company writing F/OSS but do not want to go broke. This is a lifesaver for me! Better than a starburst, which is what I had before and it does not last as long as a lifesaver. Anyway thanks for the info.
#1 F/OSS software does not help terrorism, the flaws in Windows helps terrorists break into it more easily. If everyone ran Linux or *BSD Unix, there would not be so many crack attempts or malware infections.
#2 IP Theft, most commercial developers steal from open source and free source code and then claim it as their own. Since commercial developers do not release their code to the public, it is hard to tell what they stole. Tons of "free source code" web sites out there to support my theory on that.
#3 Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) software has a higher TCO over OSS due to licensing issues, support costs, and the hardware upgrades required to run the COTS packages. F/OSS has virtually no licensing issues, a low cost support package (free if you get your support off Internet sources), and runs on older hardware mostly (Linux still runs fine on 486 and Pentium 1 systems).
I love the Linux Mainframe comparison, they compare Linux on an IBM mainframe to Windows 2003 Server on a dual Xenon server. Then cite the Linux machine as having a higher TCO becuase of the cost of the mainframe, the power bill, the maintenance contract, etc.
Or how about the Windows vs. Linux report that does not put a cost on the security breaches and malware attacks on Windows systems?
had to key in "666" for the administrator password. Got a visit from the Asmodeus Daemon after I logged on. ;)
I recall all of those DOS based "2400 to 9600 baud converter" programs that people used to upload to BBSes. When run it created a virus or trojan on the system. This is nothing new.
File sharing networks are full of files like that which are too small to be the real deal, yet people are tricked into downloading them, thinking it is what they are looking for.
This is not a problem for me, until I start getting support calls, or emails from people who got infected. Please clean my system so I can get work done, they ask.
Worst case I had was almost 49 trojans/viruses on one system that had someone running a file sharing program, and their daughter downloaded all the crap she could find and ran it. So I deleted the file sharing program and all the infected files. I installed the latest free antivirus, antitrojan, anti-spyware, tools and cleaned the system. Somehow it is infected again because they complain that it is running too slow now.
On one of my test systems, I got into a file sharing network, and started to download random files I searched for. I had several malware detectors. Most of the files downloaded were malware and got deleted. I'd say a good 87% of them were infected. No files where run or kept, I was just testing the malware detectors. The hard drive was reformatted later on.
People get what they pay for, and if they try to cheat the system, they may get violated by malware.
I could not afford one from Apple, nor auction sites, so I bought a $4USD white plastic notebook hat I can put papers into and got some markers and used an old keyboard keycaps and an old MS-Mouse and made my own Powerbook. L@@K, it works 100%, runs OSX as well. Only downside is I am now being sued by Apple for making a Powerbook clone without their permission. ;)
You confuse Christianity with a small sample of people from that religion.
;) Your ad hominine fallacies reveal much about your character. Your fallacies show flaws in your logic. Therefore your logic is flawed.
While I am a follower of Loki, I am amused by your deceit and trickery.
Christianity is based on truths, do unto others as you would have them do unto you, love your enemies, etc. Like Islam, and many other religions, those truths have been distorted or forgotten or ignored by the followers. This is where we have a breakdown. Thus you base the actions of a few to the entire population, which is called prejudging. This prejudging is what bigots do. Thus, it is logical to conclude that you are indeed a bigot. Thus you are also a hypocite. Should I be the same as you, I would brand all members of your religion as bigots or hyporcites, but I will not. Doing so is a fallacy, which I will not commit.
Christianity has contributed much to society, many Christian run homeless shelters do a lot of good work. Feeding, clothing, and taking care of the poor. Many Christian organizations also take care of the poor in other countries. More so than any other religion. This philisophy came from Jesus hiself, to take care of the least of your brothers. He said "What so ever you do to the least of your brothers, you do unto me." Doing so taught a philisophy of taking care of the poor. This in itself is a philisophical truth. You apparently are too blind to see this. Many books are written on Christian ideas, like servent leadership, which contributed much to literature. In fact one of the greatest stories ever told was inspired by Christianity, the story of "King Arthur". Many good litature books, which of course you are also too blind to see. Hatred has blinded you, apparently. Let go of that hate.
I recall a Roman Emperor Constantine I, who said that if God helped him win the next battle, which the odds were against him, that he would change the offical religion of the empire. God was on his side and he won. That in itself is evidence of God doing something. There are other examples but your hatred has blinded you to them.
Microsoft does outsource, or so I heard, and they are not always well trained.
As for VB 3.0 replacement disks, I am SOL because they reached an end of life cycle years ago.
It does not matter, I migrated my server to Linux, some day I may also migrate my workstations as well. Of course I can always use a disk from one of the other workstations or the MSDN package, but the fact is I shouldn't have this sort of problem from MS.
Yes VB 3.0 is no longer supported. I cannot get disks for it anymore. I am SOL.
I call it what everyone else calls it. I also call XFree86 as X-Windows, which you may not agree with either.
When you install it, it says it is Windows XP Pro. Computer slang, which I use, calls it XP Pro Corp Edition because it does not have product activation.
we cannot backup commercial software? My Windows XP Pro Corp edition disk always gets scratched, if I did not make a backup copy it would have been costing me more money to buy another copy. I do not think that Microsoft replaces disks anymore, last time I tried I was told to buy another copy.
;)
My Visual BASIC 3.0 floppy disks suffered from bit-rott, and are unusable. I was going to make a old 386 with WFW 3.11 and MS-DOS 6.22 with VB 3.0 to develop 16 bit apps, but that is impossible now.
Because people cannot legally make a backup of the videos they buy, many are forced to losing a DVD that got ruined by a scratch. So they either rent the DVD or download a copy of it off of a file sharing network.
I have seen the DVD backup software, it tells the viewer that they are viewing a copy and has the web address of the company that made the DVD backup software when a copied DVD is viewed.
Maybe we should have open sourced movies now?
I run Linspire and OpenStep, easy enough for me to use and configure. No need for me to use OSX anyway.
For $450USD I can buy a very good low end PC Clone using an AMD processor at 2.0 Ghz, and an 80G hard drive, and 512M of RAM, DVD+RW drive, GeForce FX video chipset, onboard LAN, USB 2.0, Firewire, etc sans an OS and for $50USD I can buy a copy of Lindows, and use F/OSS software for the rest of it. So $500 total, and what do I have to spend to get all that with a Macintosh? $1799 for the low end G5 model. They may be worth it, but they are still out of my price range.
The iMac and eMac are underpowered for me, and not expandable enough for me.
to move F/OSS to Windows. It helps the migration to Linux a lot better.
Linux needs to improve to become a better desktop OS.
Many organizations do not use Linux and F/OSS becuase they have not been certified for use with their profession, like accounting etc. So there needs to be certification of Linux and F/OSS products. If the organization doing the certification is in the pocket of MS, fat chance of that happening.
I have three SE models in my basement. One of them is an SE/30 which I was going to install OpenBSD on as soon as I upgraded the hard drive to something bigger than 80M. Now I have a use for them besides that Fish Tank case mod. ;)
in a humoris manner, it is a personality flaw of mine.
Don't take everything I say too seriously, I am after all posting in character. That character being a Space Pirate from 4096AD who went back in the past to the late 20th and early 21st century and became a computer software developer who is now disabled and out of a job. So I know the future, and am posting based on that knowledge.
MS puts Spyware in Media Player and other Windows programs. How hard would it be then to modify the Windows Update to find the XP Key and send it in to Microsoft for examination if it is a valid key or not? That way they can see how many pirated copies of XP are out there. The personal info they collect this way can tell them what the typical pirate is like.
evaluating the effectiveness of said shared decoy media file in inhibiting the identification and retrieval of proprietary media via said automated search engines; and
Fancy talk for creating web pages and submitting them to web sites. Spammers have done this for as long as the WWW existed. How can you patent something like that?
interactively modifying process configuration parameters to influence the effectiveness of inhibiting said identification and retrieval of proprietary media via said automated search engines
Increasing one's rank in a search engine is nothing new either. Also Spammers have used these techquies since search engines existed. Again nothing new.
What these paragraphs that you keep quoting tell me, is that the patent is 100% pure BS. They can reword it all they want, it is still 100% pure BS and based on technquies and ideas that others have used since before the patent was filed.
Let me put it in words your feeble mind can comprehend:
If I file a patent for combining a virus with a spamming program to create a zombie network for sending out spam, it is a false patent. Even if nobody filed for it before, it has been in use before I filed it. I can use legalise and any other rewording that I like to use, but it is still 100% pure BS.
End of discussion.
and distrobution.
DRI goofed when they blew off IBM, MS "borrowed" Q-DOS/86-DOS (a CP/M ripoff) for $50K USD and turned around and sold it to IBM. There was nothing in the IBM contract that said MS could not sell their own version of the OS, so MS-DOS was licensed to Compaq, etc.
Microsoft, seeking to help Apple and perhaps create a new market to take money away from Lotus and WordPerfect, create Word and Excel for the Macintosh. While Word and Excel were miserable failures at first, like the Macintosh, they sold more and gained marketshare after being bundled with PC sales and in MSOffice as a big bundle.
Microsoft, seeking to license the OS the Macintosh uses from Apple, upon rejection of that deal, invent Interface Manager, which eventually led to Windows in 1985. A miserable failure at first.
IBM and Microsoft work together over OS/2, Microsoft puts Windows on a back burner and fully supports OS/2. After disagreements and political infighting with IBM, MS makes their own copy of OS/2, which leads to Windows NT 3.1, another miserable failure. Windows 3.1 takes off because MS bundles it with MS-DOS.
Windows is revamped, and Microsoft practially gives away development tools for it. After MS bundles Windows 3.1 with MS-DOS, sales of Windows go up and pass OS/2 sales.
MSOffice bundles Word and Excel with Powerpoint and Access. It is a hit for the growing Windows market. The failure for the Mac became a hit for Windows.
Microsoft revamps NT into a Server OS, fixes some bugs, and gains more support. NT Server starts to outsell Novel Netware, etc.
Windows 95 is born, using some of the OS/2 technology mixed in with Windows 3.X and MS-DOS 6.X code, Microsoft makes it a hit OS because it is bundled with new PCs and a big marketing drive tells everyone it is better than ever. Most of the Windows 3.X sales upgrade to Windows 95.
Microsoft eventually learns to bundle Internet Explorer with Windows 95OSR2 and 98, this hurts Netscape. Who needs a browser when Windows now includes one for free? Microsoft learned to leverage one Monopoly to create another. The same thing was done with Media Player to kill Real Player and Quicktime.
Microsoft, finding that it cannot grow any further in marketshare, tries to make it into the video game and ISP business. MSN and XBox are big losses, and money pits. MS Games don't sell as well as others. Proof that MS does not have what it takes to enter other markets and be successful unless they leverage their Monopoly to do so.
Recently MS made plans to enter Finacial Services, loans, credit cards, etc. Why? Because their OS and software marketshare cannot grow any bigger than it already has. Not unless they force everyone in that market to upgrade to a new platform, hence Longhorn is born.
So, tell me, how well can the typical Wal-Mart employee tell the difference between a real ID and a fake ID? If someone steals or dupes my Credit Card or ATM card and steals my Pin, whatever, and you card them and they have an ID that says it is me, but has their picture on it and not me, how can you tell? They can even dupe holgrams now.
:)
Next I suppose you will tell me there has to be a thumbprint or retna scan ID to verify they are who they say they are.