Clicking on that link launches your email client with an email addressed to apple@apple.com. Now I wonder how many such emails are going to even get read, let alone considered? PR ploy on behalf of Apple. Maybe they have a BOT set up to "thank you for your input." When the day comes that a corporation the size of Apple really listens to consumers....... many seem to think feedback on the Public Beta of X brought about change. But that "feedback" and "feedback" since then only counts, like it does to your elected crook politician in Wash. D.C. when there's enough heat (numbers) applied. PR move. What if Apple gets a thousand requests to run Windoze on the Mac or port OS X to X86 chip, you think that's going to change anything?
Good comment. Epson has always supported the Mac platform well, going back to the 1980's.
The first printer I owned for an Apple ][+ in 1981 was an Epson. It was less expensive than the Apple model and twice the quality.
Epson is a good deal bigger now than they were back then. If a Mac user writes their tech support (my one experience in late 2000) you get back a form letter email suggesting that (your problem, whatever it is) is likely due to an extensions conflict .
But a followup email gets decent results. Tedious but they're a big company. They were fast off the mark when OS X shipped. HP took forever and I don't care what the ignorant excuse was that posted in a different thread by a former HP employee. Epson was there with drivers for most consumer printers day one.
Big companies do indeed do stupid and ignorant things from time to time. They all do. Name one that hasn't. Epson of all printer manufacturers supports the Mac best. Other devices I'm not as certain about. But Epson printers I know.
Amen. What an inane and irrelevant article. Anyone with Guenella or Lime Wire or whatever can do the same thing.
With Office and Adobe they now have a copy protection scheme, assuming you can get past the initial installs because of bad numbers, media that doesn't functioned as planned, et al, which is a no brainer to copy so a pirate is going to get the copy protection along with the software. In OS X it's even worse because certain utilities make it a no brainer to make even the invisible files visible.
No, I am *not* describing how I acquire software. I just had to format and reinstall OS X and all applications. Office, GoLive 6, et al were a snap because of where the copy protection code is "hidden."
I digress. The point is that use of an iPod (why not a much larger capacity FireWire HD the same size?) is no more difficult. It just makes the iPod look bad to have this junk run.
As to using Flash or MultiMedia cards to copy I'm skeptical, but don't really know. Have only tried, out of curiosity copying to one from a card reader attached to the G4 and it choked on that idea.
Good comment. I can't imagine why this link was even posted to Slashdot. The fact that it is positive RE Linux doesn't make it relevant. The article shows absolutely no suggestion that the writer did anything resembling serious research. Why timothy bothered to posted this I don't have a clue.
What kind of "alternative" is clicking on a banner adv.?
What do you get? A doubleclick.net cookie naturally!
Which is a good alternative to drowning? (1) falling from a height of 100 stories (2) freezing to death. If you answered (3) same difference, you go to the head of the class.
IMO we already have too much control.
By ICANN.
We don't need more "control" by the government (any) except so far as ICANN control is diminished, government participation is *included* (a word with a different meaning than "controlled"), but also with end user participation.
Ralph Nader, the Greens, or any other organization of similiar ilk, liked or disliked, have shown that national and international participation will work for the "end users" of a nation or the world.
More government is too often the solution. While intervention may be needed at times, simply passing control onto something else, in whole or in part, is rarely the solution to any problem.
There's no way of knowing that the blacklists help.
They sure don't hurt anyone but this yoyo who brought problem on himself.
Anything that eliminates one piece of spam out of the millions/billions sent daily is worth it.
Why should the admins who pay attention to business tolerate fools lightly?
This guy called for overthrowing the constitution. His anarchist views had nothing to do with anything legal under our form of government.
Overthrowing the Consitution is neither constructive nor positive when it comes to reform. Look it up. Civil disobediance ala the revolution led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and anarchy as advocated by this skin head are two different things.
May he rot in a mental institution or prison (same difference) for a good long while.
I really don't care what some defense attorney says his "concerns" are. The attorney for the guy that was to have been the 20th terrorist also has "concerns" about his client.
Corporations, the bigger the worser, are not about trust, they are about making money.
But wouldn't being trustworthy make them money? Sure, in theory, but in the real world a corporation's "trust index" doesn't show up on their balance sheet.
P.R., of any sort, is useful to a corporation. P.R. does not equate to trust.
I happened to be using a Mac running OS X and Classic (OS9).
I wanted to comment on the article (I still think it's some sort of joke) and use of I.E. (X), Mozilla (X), iCab (X), WannaBe (9), Mozilla (9), and iCab (9) all crashed on the "add comment link."
Well, at least it was a good exercise in net-non-compatibility and the non-coder who wrote the html for that pop up window you get clearly knows what he's doing.....coding html exclusively for a Windoze world.
I've looked at a large number of available large monitors at different times. I made the mistake of buying the cinema display when it was more expensive (no, not when it was 5k).
I quite agree that for the quality and money in a large monitor that the 22" cinema display is the best buy out there.
I can't conceive of Apple, with the niche marketing plan it developed after Jobs' return, with four distinct products, ever making the iMac2 available with much flexibility, such as different monitors.
After the failure of the Cube I also can't see them launching a fifth product, i.e., the iMac2 sans monitor.
There's an "easy" way to get the 22" cinema display and that's to buy the G4 Tower. People who want the big monitor often tend to be the types that want the expansion capabilities and increased power of the Tower as well.
I know that I do. I don't mind using a TiBook from time to time with my 2nd monitor, a 17" Apple CRT, but for desktop use I want more than the iMac2 can afford, like high speed SCSI drives and other options via PCI cards.
Interesting article. Guess they think they can assemble it correctly again and not be caught doing so as Apple is *extremely* picky about their warranty. Like it or not, that's the way it is.
If you grant patents for discoveries relating to the function, interaction etc. of DNA then why not allow patents on "newly discovered" objects in the universe, say a solar system, and not allow anyone else to look at it or fly their XWing fighter through it?
DNA has "always been there." Patenting an understanding of its functions makes just as much sense as what i've just mentioned. That solar system has always "been there" but Hubble finally got a day that wasn't too cloudy and grabbed a nice snap shot.
Is science to be driven solely by greed and the desire to make money, not the desire to, for example, discover information which will result in health improvements, and, not the least, science for its own sake?
I can't think of many topics less interest, or more boring, than this issue. It has been dredged up, dusted off, and beaten to death every year since shareware created on the Macintosh platform, which spread to the IBM PC platform fairly quickly, on The Well BBS and on the MAUG forum Compuserve, in 1984.
Sadly it's an age old problem. And it's not going away and it's not be modified or changed in any material way by Ambrosia's new registration scheme, which does little more than create potential problems for the users who do pay.
(No problem? Read the position paper to which this linked? "Only takes 30 seconds?" What if the user was at excite@home and is now "blessed" with a new email address? What if this problem occurs at a bad time, as in over the weekend? This is productivity software, not one of Ambrosia's games.)
No registration scheme other than the simplest and least expensive for both vendor and customer serves any useful purpose. They don't work. They never will. The old saw that "the pirate might have bought it if he couldn't steal it so easily" is bogus, unproven, and one of the many myths of our age.
So the vendor and the legitimate customer will continue to pay the price, something the thief could care less about, or who will rationalize it on the basis that he doesn't have enough money or some other inane reason.
Specialty vendors like Ambrosia, and many game vendors for that matter, will rise or fail depending on business successes. The world hasn't suddenly changed. If the "customer base" is largely pirates, their ability to prosper is questionable at best.
All software should be free? Tell the young coders who write Ambrosia software this. Tell their families.
With OS X the usefulness of Linux on the PPC platform is indeed brought into question, but article is still a good read.
It's interesting, however, to note that Linux people still miss the whole point of finding out about Mac OS X. Don't like it? Don't use it. But if you're smart you'll develop for hit. Read the O'Reilly Network, or any any other article, for writing in cocoa for MacOS X.
If there's anything missing in the viability of the comments about PPCLinux and its "questionable viability" you could well say the same thing about Linux in general as a desktop platform. It's going nowhere. Genome and KDE will not only never be the finished GUI that OS X is, but they also won't have the installed (and growing) desktop users that OS X has either.
New games are shipping for OS X, not ports, but original games. The recent O'Reilly network article about writing for cocoa represents an idea which any geek interested in making a living doing something besides tweaking SQL databases may want to consider.
Sure, the Mac OS X kernal, Darwin, itself offers much to users. But any Linux geek who likes to write code should give it even more serious consideration, its portability to other platforms, including Linux.
If you're hung up on the idea of free software disregard this, but if you're looking for a good *nix OS check out OS X if you're smart.
Isn't that a concidence. I just came from a Mac discussion forum which was discussing the same linked article on the Mac Head site.
I show up in Linux city and what do I find? Well, I find a lot more messages, but that doesn't mean a thing.
All I have to do is take the ones on the Mac board, switch Max and Linux, and do the same here. They're interchangeable.
The Wintel chappies are bug eyed with glee and laughing it up as us dumb kiddies.
Heh. Lotsa Linux types haul an iBook around. And lotsa Mac sites run Linux on their servers. Does that suggest any thing? Maybe we should check out these other guys, maybe?
Why are the penguinites and mac heads banging? Maybe.....just maybe, there's a little objectivity here in 10% of the posts. The others are either ill informed or prejudiced.
Yeh? Well I posted about the same dumb message you just read on the mac head board too.
I wonder why editorial of slashdot.org is forever linking to content on cnn.com? Don't Slashdot readers get their "news" from any other sources?
(Please pardon my use of the word "news" in the context of the babbling PR staff of CNN, FoxNews, et al.)
Doesn't Slashdot editorial realize that most visitors to these shores read and appreciate, yet can't read all, news sources?
(In this case I'm using "news" in the context of intelligent and informed nuggets of information scattered hither and yon across the net, as opposed to the highly paid former actresses, actor-want-to-bes, and just plain failed staff of the television media.)
Do "news" (oops, did it again, used it out of context) items on CNN ever contain any fully accurate information? How can they portray Linux in a proper light if it's not accurate? What audience does Linux want to appeal to, the brain numb crowd that buys their kid a (barely functional) refurbished PC from Best Buy for $395. that winds up gathering dust in the closet after he gets bored with the included games? These types were brain dead when born, what "appeal" does Linux have to such a market?
Quality IT people and management, the core of the present Linux market, and one of the potentials for further growth of Linux as well, as well as intelligent students at all levels, represent one of the best markets for the immediate future. Do they surf the net jumping from the CNNs, FoxNEWs et als to gather their news?
OK, maybe this story is unique to CNN and everyone thinks they're basking in good PR. But does IBM Business Services or your local online banking service advertise on reruns of the Beverly Hillbillies?
Did the PR folks working for Apple seek out the cover on People or on Time earlier this month?
You like CNN or Fox? Terribly sorry. Popping in to look at something is not unusual for everyone of us most likely. But the current and future user base of Linux ain't gonna grow from the mainstream crowd at those "news" (oops, sorry) sites.
Be happy when the coverage is on Fortune or Forbes, silicon.com or ZDnet, but appeals to the lowest common denominator at this point in time of the life of Linux appear foolhardy at best.
Think. Even if you think Cathedral and the Bazaar is a ripoff, bad joke or whatever, at least Eric whatzit and his crowd had a Plan that worked to spread the word that interested them.
What's the plan for Linux advocacy? Being pleased to pick up a crumb now and then from the CNNs of the world? What's that going to grow except more cookies for your browser?
I presume you're using the "cameras rolling" metaphorically. ALL coverage of the press, and thereby the best direct information for the public is barred.
I personally couldn't care less if they took every television set out in the country and shot them to put them out of their misery.
I would like to know what's going on, however, and Microsoft clearly doesn't want that. So now I must obtained information, presumably, from daily briefings of whatever States' AG happened to be present and interested in talking.
"Talking" in their case may well involved, big surprise, whatever hatchet they happen to be interested in grinding at the moment.
It's not that the free press is up to the task of providing full and fair coverage, it's just that they at least put on a show they're doing so that's more convincing than *any* attorney general, elected or brown-nosed.
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Clicking on that link launches your email client with an email addressed to apple@apple.com. Now I wonder how many such emails are going to even get read, let alone considered? PR ploy on behalf of Apple. Maybe they have a BOT set up to "thank you for your input." When the day comes that a corporation the size of Apple really listens to consumers....... many seem to think feedback on the Public Beta of X brought about change. But that "feedback" and "feedback" since then only counts, like it does to your elected crook politician in Wash. D.C. when there's enough heat (numbers) applied.
PR move. What if Apple gets a thousand requests to run Windoze on the Mac or port OS X to X86 chip, you think that's going to change anything?
Good comment. Epson has always supported the Mac platform well, going back to the 1980's.
The first printer I owned for an Apple ][+ in 1981 was an Epson. It was less expensive than the Apple model and twice the quality.
Epson is a good deal bigger now than they were back then. If a Mac user writes their tech support (my one experience in late 2000) you get back a form letter email suggesting that (your problem, whatever it is) is likely due to an extensions conflict .
But a followup email gets decent results. Tedious but they're a big company. They were fast off the mark when OS X shipped. HP took forever and I don't care what the ignorant excuse was that posted in a different thread by a former HP employee. Epson was there with drivers for most consumer printers day one.
Big companies do indeed do stupid and ignorant things from time to time. They all do. Name one that hasn't. Epson of all printer manufacturers supports the Mac best. Other devices I'm not as certain about. But Epson printers I know.
Amen. What an inane and irrelevant article. Anyone with Guenella or Lime Wire or whatever can do the same thing. With Office and Adobe they now have a copy protection scheme, assuming you can get past the initial installs because of bad numbers, media that doesn't functioned as planned, et al, which is a no brainer to copy so a pirate is going to get the copy protection along with the software. In OS X it's even worse because certain utilities make it a no brainer to make even the invisible files visible. No, I am *not* describing how I acquire software. I just had to format and reinstall OS X and all applications. Office, GoLive 6, et al were a snap because of where the copy protection code is "hidden." I digress. The point is that use of an iPod (why not a much larger capacity FireWire HD the same size?) is no more difficult. It just makes the iPod look bad to have this junk run. As to using Flash or MultiMedia cards to copy I'm skeptical, but don't really know. Have only tried, out of curiosity copying to one from a card reader attached to the G4 and it choked on that idea.
Frankly Sue I think you did just grand with your first post given the handicap of your last name.
Sam Clemens
Good comment. I can't imagine why this link was even posted to Slashdot. The fact that it is positive RE Linux doesn't make it relevant. The article shows absolutely no suggestion that the writer did anything resembling serious research. Why timothy bothered to posted this I don't have a clue.
You sure you're at the right web site?
This is not the Son of God AKA Bill Gates Forum.org.
Besides, remarks like yours should not be made unless there's substantial payola involved.
But ESR lacks the donations of 4 million members, a no-compromise attitude, and the professional employees to back it up.
No? Join the real world. Those NRA types have nails in their salt shakers.
You pose a good question.
;)
We're not going to see the end of (attempts at) censorship in this millenium.
By the time it's gone the archive should be incredible in size.
What kind of "alternative" is clicking on a banner adv.?
What do you get? A doubleclick.net cookie naturally!
Which is a good alternative to drowning? (1) falling from a height of 100 stories (2) freezing to death. If you answered (3) same difference, you go to the head of the class.
Duh.
IMO we already have too much control. By ICANN. We don't need more "control" by the government (any) except so far as ICANN control is diminished, government participation is *included* (a word with a different meaning than "controlled"), but also with end user participation. Ralph Nader, the Greens, or any other organization of similiar ilk, liked or disliked, have shown that national and international participation will work for the "end users" of a nation or the world. More government is too often the solution. While intervention may be needed at times, simply passing control onto something else, in whole or in part, is rarely the solution to any problem.
Absolutemente out of sight and hilarious post.
I needed this on a Monday.
LOL
At least you're not having to reinstall WinXP daily. ;)
It sounds to me like HP has hired a new Harvard MBA. Sounds like an "innovative" business plan to me to shave yet another dollar off the bottom line.
There's no way of knowing that the blacklists help. They sure don't hurt anyone but this yoyo who brought problem on himself. Anything that eliminates one piece of spam out of the millions/billions sent daily is worth it. Why should the admins who pay attention to business tolerate fools lightly?
This guy called for overthrowing the constitution. His anarchist views had nothing to do with anything legal under our form of government.
Overthrowing the Consitution is neither constructive nor positive when it comes to reform. Look it up. Civil disobediance ala the revolution led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and anarchy as advocated by this skin head are two different things.
May he rot in a mental institution or prison (same difference) for a good long while.
I really don't care what some defense attorney says his "concerns" are. The attorney for the guy that was to have been the 20th terrorist also has "concerns" about his client.
Wishful thinking.
Corporations, the bigger the worser, are not about trust, they are about making money.
But wouldn't being trustworthy make them money? Sure, in theory, but in the real world a corporation's "trust index" doesn't show up on their balance sheet.
P.R., of any sort, is useful to a corporation. P.R. does not equate to trust.
I happened to be using a Mac running OS X and Classic (OS9).
I wanted to comment on the article (I still think it's some sort of joke) and use of I.E. (X), Mozilla (X), iCab (X), WannaBe (9), Mozilla (9), and iCab (9) all crashed on the "add comment link."
Well, at least it was a good exercise in net-non-compatibility and the non-coder who wrote the html for that pop up window you get clearly knows what he's doing.....coding html exclusively for a Windoze world.
I've looked at a large number of available large monitors at different times. I made the mistake of buying the cinema display when it was more expensive (no, not when it was 5k). I quite agree that for the quality and money in a large monitor that the 22" cinema display is the best buy out there. I can't conceive of Apple, with the niche marketing plan it developed after Jobs' return, with four distinct products, ever making the iMac2 available with much flexibility, such as different monitors. After the failure of the Cube I also can't see them launching a fifth product, i.e., the iMac2 sans monitor. There's an "easy" way to get the 22" cinema display and that's to buy the G4 Tower. People who want the big monitor often tend to be the types that want the expansion capabilities and increased power of the Tower as well. I know that I do. I don't mind using a TiBook from time to time with my 2nd monitor, a 17" Apple CRT, but for desktop use I want more than the iMac2 can afford, like high speed SCSI drives and other options via PCI cards. Interesting article. Guess they think they can assemble it correctly again and not be caught doing so as Apple is *extremely* picky about their warranty. Like it or not, that's the way it is.
If you grant patents for discoveries relating to the function, interaction etc. of DNA then why not allow patents on "newly discovered" objects in the universe, say a solar system, and not allow anyone else to look at it or fly their XWing fighter through it?
DNA has "always been there." Patenting an understanding of its functions makes just as much sense as what i've just mentioned. That solar system has always "been there" but Hubble finally got a day that wasn't too cloudy and grabbed a nice snap shot.
Is science to be driven solely by greed and the desire to make money, not the desire to, for example, discover information which will result in health improvements, and, not the least, science for its own sake?
Not much of a world to live in.
This AC speaks with straight tongue. Get ready to paid for an upgrade.
What was that bug fix update a couple of days ago, 13MB wasn't it? Give them even a short month and the next one ought to be at least 2GB.
PR, PR, PR, Mr. Bill's gotten too much of the bad kind and is now shifting into super-hype mode trying to offset it......with the usual hot air.
Hoot, mon, ye trusts a 3 time offender now to steal the last chicken in the henhouse if ye leaves him alone for a 4th?
I can't think of many topics less interest, or more boring, than this issue. It has been dredged up, dusted off, and beaten to death every year since shareware created on the Macintosh platform, which spread to the IBM PC platform fairly quickly, on The Well BBS and on the MAUG forum Compuserve, in 1984. Sadly it's an age old problem. And it's not going away and it's not be modified or changed in any material way by Ambrosia's new registration scheme, which does little more than create potential problems for the users who do pay. (No problem? Read the position paper to which this linked? "Only takes 30 seconds?" What if the user was at excite@home and is now "blessed" with a new email address? What if this problem occurs at a bad time, as in over the weekend? This is productivity software, not one of Ambrosia's games.) No registration scheme other than the simplest and least expensive for both vendor and customer serves any useful purpose. They don't work. They never will. The old saw that "the pirate might have bought it if he couldn't steal it so easily" is bogus, unproven, and one of the many myths of our age. So the vendor and the legitimate customer will continue to pay the price, something the thief could care less about, or who will rationalize it on the basis that he doesn't have enough money or some other inane reason. Specialty vendors like Ambrosia, and many game vendors for that matter, will rise or fail depending on business successes. The world hasn't suddenly changed. If the "customer base" is largely pirates, their ability to prosper is questionable at best. All software should be free? Tell the young coders who write Ambrosia software this. Tell their families.
With OS X the usefulness of Linux on the PPC platform is indeed brought into question, but article is still a good read.
It's interesting, however, to note that Linux people still miss the whole point of finding out about Mac OS X. Don't like it? Don't use it. But if you're smart you'll develop for hit. Read the O'Reilly Network, or any any other article, for writing in cocoa for MacOS X.
If there's anything missing in the viability of the comments about PPCLinux and its "questionable viability" you could well say the same thing about Linux in general as a desktop platform. It's going nowhere. Genome and KDE will not only never be the finished GUI that OS X is, but they also won't have the installed (and growing) desktop users that OS X has either.
New games are shipping for OS X, not ports, but original games. The recent O'Reilly network article about writing for cocoa represents an idea which any geek interested in making a living doing something besides tweaking SQL databases may want to consider.
Sure, the Mac OS X kernal, Darwin, itself offers much to users. But any Linux geek who likes to write code should give it even more serious consideration, its portability to other platforms, including Linux.
If you're hung up on the idea of free software disregard this, but if you're looking for a good *nix OS check out OS X if you're smart.
Isn't that a concidence. I just came from a Mac discussion forum which was discussing the same linked article on the Mac Head site.
I show up in Linux city and what do I find? Well, I find a lot more messages, but that doesn't mean a thing.
All I have to do is take the ones on the Mac board, switch Max and Linux, and do the same here. They're interchangeable.
The Wintel chappies are bug eyed with glee and laughing it up as us dumb kiddies.
Heh. Lotsa Linux types haul an iBook around. And lotsa Mac sites run Linux on their servers. Does that suggest any thing? Maybe we should check out these other guys, maybe?
Why are the penguinites and mac heads banging? Maybe.....just maybe, there's a little objectivity here in 10% of the posts. The others are either ill informed or prejudiced.
Yeh? Well I posted about the same dumb message you just read on the mac head board too.
heh.
A SETI@home dude. Omigosh. Thanks for brightening my day! (And keep up the good work!)
I wonder why editorial of slashdot.org is forever linking to content on cnn.com? Don't Slashdot readers get their "news" from any other sources?
(Please pardon my use of the word "news" in the context of the babbling PR staff of CNN, FoxNews, et al.)
Doesn't Slashdot editorial realize that most visitors to these shores read and appreciate, yet can't read all, news sources?
(In this case I'm using "news" in the context of intelligent and informed nuggets of information scattered hither and yon across the net, as opposed to the highly paid former actresses, actor-want-to-bes, and just plain failed staff of the television media.)
Do "news" (oops, did it again, used it out of context) items on CNN ever contain any fully accurate information? How can they portray Linux in a proper light if it's not accurate? What audience does Linux want to appeal to, the brain numb crowd that buys their kid a (barely functional) refurbished PC from Best Buy for $395. that winds up gathering dust in the closet after he gets bored with the included games? These types were brain dead when born, what "appeal" does Linux have to such a market?
Quality IT people and management, the core of the present Linux market, and one of the potentials for further growth of Linux as well, as well as intelligent students at all levels, represent one of the best markets for the immediate future. Do they surf the net jumping from the CNNs, FoxNEWs et als to gather their news?
OK, maybe this story is unique to CNN and everyone thinks they're basking in good PR. But does IBM Business Services or your local online banking service advertise on reruns of the Beverly Hillbillies?
Did the PR folks working for Apple seek out the cover on People or on Time earlier this month?
You like CNN or Fox? Terribly sorry. Popping in to look at something is not unusual for everyone of us most likely. But the current and future user base of Linux ain't gonna grow from the mainstream crowd at those "news" (oops, sorry) sites.
Be happy when the coverage is on Fortune or Forbes, silicon.com or ZDnet, but appeals to the lowest common denominator at this point in time of the life of Linux appear foolhardy at best.
Think. Even if you think Cathedral and the Bazaar is a ripoff, bad joke or whatever, at least Eric whatzit and his crowd had a Plan that worked to spread the word that interested them.
What's the plan for Linux advocacy? Being pleased to pick up a crumb now and then from the CNNs of the world? What's that going to grow except more cookies for your browser?
Peace.
I presume you're using the "cameras rolling" metaphorically. ALL coverage of the press, and thereby the best direct information for the public is barred.
I personally couldn't care less if they took every television set out in the country and shot them to put them out of their misery.
I would like to know what's going on, however, and Microsoft clearly doesn't want that. So now I must obtained information, presumably, from daily briefings of whatever States' AG happened to be present and interested in talking.
"Talking" in their case may well involved, big surprise, whatever hatchet they happen to be interested in grinding at the moment.
It's not that the free press is up to the task of providing full and fair coverage, it's just that they at least put on a show they're doing so that's more convincing than *any* attorney general, elected or brown-nosed.