Yeah, but there's a distinct difference. They could have named it Sindows, you know. And plus, it's a Window Manager on a Sun box. The sole purpose of the Lindows project, if you admit it or not, is to steal people for the Microsoft user base, with the hopes of confusing some of them.
Strictly speaking, it's "X Window System" or something like that, and it definitely predates Microsoft Windows by many years.
Uhh, front page of the site says first commercial release - 1986, Windows 1.0 was out in '85.
But you forget about the special place for Microsoft under the law. It can use "Window" without infringing on "X Window System," it can even use "X" (for X-box) without infringing on "X Window System" or causing the slightest amount of confusion about what "X programming" is.
Uhh, you're stretching the truth a bit. I don't think you can place a trademark on a letter of the alphabet. I understand that you're a LinuxZealot®, and that you need to lie. But this isn't appropriate. See, little white lies are appropriate at other times, like, say, when you catch your father jacking off in a gay men's bath house. But I digress. Point is that you are showing the maturity of a 2-year-old.
He must have meant 'switched distrobutions'... cause there's so damn many, each specialized in their own way! It's like Lay's potato chips... you can't have just one!
The sole fact that you use AOL should make it illegal for you to use stupid, asinine names like MicroSquish and M$... You're probably one of those people that boots into Linux to use pico to edit text files, but boots back to Win98 so "I can use AOL!!" Yeah this may be flamebait, but the parent post is bullshit. Pure bullshit.
"Here's how you can help. We are composing a list of the many hundreds of products named "Windows Something" or "Something Windows" or even variations on the word windows, which are not from Microsoft. We know there are many, many products that fit this characterization and we could use your assistance to help us create this list. We are looking for hardware products, software products, products for any operating system and even operating systems themselves"
Hardware, well only thing I can think of is that pane of glass in my wall... umm, unless he's talking about boxes of hardware that say "Designed for Microsoft Windows."
Software. Wow. Hmm... how about anything named "XXXXX for Windows".
My favorite part is the "even operating systems themselves." That's funny. Cause the only OS that I know of that has 'Windows' in its name is...well... Windows!
This guy hasn't a leg to stand on. I think he likes getting himself into trouble and then making up bullshit excuses for why his interpretation of the law is right. I'm certainly not for the RIAA (H.R. can lick my nards), but it's kind of like him explaining why the MP3s on my.mp3.com were..uh.. 'legal.' By his interpretation anyway.
Face it, this guy knows he did wrong. Just think what would have happened if Microsoft named their Internet browser Metscape Mavigator.... But it begins with M (for Microsoft)! It's different!
Oh, and for the curious, here is their privacy policy:
"Contact Information: Some areas of the Site request or require contact and other information. During the registration process, we collect information such as your name, mailing address, and e-mail address. Your contact information may be used to get in touch with you when necessary with respect to transactions conducted through the Site or for other internal purposes. We do not share your contact information with any third party without your consent, except to a court or governmental agency if permitted by law, as authorized by a court of competent jurisdiction or to the limited extent described below under "Certain Third Party Transactions". "
Looks like that just flew out the door... er, window.
Hmm... Well I do remember booting to the Finder off an 800K floppy... whether it was System 1 (I'm pretty sure) or system 2 I don't really remember....
Oh, yeah, building on that... Windows activation doesn't require any information except your country of orgin. It then sends the one-way hardware hash. So go suck an egg -- that is total bullshit you posted. God forbid someone mods it up as 'insightful.'
Actually, Win2k doesn't give you any install options besides the time zone (on a clean install). And therefore IIS IS NOT INSTALLED BY DEFAULT ON WIN2K PRO. You have to go into the Windows Components setup in Control Panel and install it manually. On Win2k server, I don't think it's installed by default either, you have to tell the setup wizard whether you want to make it a web server, file and print server, streaming media server, domain controller, etc.
Umm... almost all the links lead offsite to reliable news sources... such as Reuters, Washington Post, etc. So if you don't want to believe it, and think it's shite cause you're a left-wing liberal, well that's up to you. It's still a good page.
Hey, don't diss Drudge!:) His site is the shit. Always has all the latest-breaking headlines from lots of different news sites. Tons of other news links too.
Actually, you're right. They convert them to MS Word format before sending.
And, concerning.XLS, you hit the point!
I *hate*, really, when people publish their tables of data in.xls I had no Excel anywhere around (though most of the computers here are windows-based) and you go through hell trying to convert it in a reusable format.
Yeah, except for the character formatting, print area, formulas, embedded graphs... I can go on and on.
What's the big fucking deal anyway? I remember a few weeks ago when everyone on/. got their panties in a bunch because they were boycotting PDF cause the format isn't open. So what. Jesus Christ, just go download a fucking viewer. It's not that hard. Damn these OSS elitists can be some whiny bitches sometimes... When will they realize that the other 99.97% of they world doesn't care what they think or what their personal boycotts are about. The world will continue to use Word.doc format forever, and no amount of whining will ever change that.
There are a lot of good reasons NOT to send Word attachments, and no good reasons to send them.
Hmm, I guess then the next argument Dicky Stall-man's gonna make is that we should stop using Excel's.XLS format in favor of text-delimited files, and we should all abandon powerpoint in favor of good ole overhead transparencies.
What a crock of shit. This hippie needed something to write about, so he decided to bash Microsoft again.
My question: What about Wordperfect?!? I guess it's just as impractical to email WordPerfect.wpd files out... of course Word will open and convert them.... and hey here's an idea: KOffice and StarOffice will open.doc files too!
a) Yes, Microsoft are evil soulless monsters
b) No, "a" would be popular because it's true
c) No,/.ers would flood the poll towards c
d) No, polls are always accurate
e) fish.
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Yeah, but there's a distinct difference. They could have named it Sindows, you know. And plus, it's a Window Manager on a Sun box. The sole purpose of the Lindows project, if you admit it or not, is to steal people for the Microsoft user base, with the hopes of confusing some of them.
I haven't rebooted my WinXP box in 28 days. Put that in your bowl and smoke it.
I had read that subheading, but it implies that the companies are working together...which is not the case here.
Uhh, front page of the site says first commercial release - 1986, Windows 1.0 was out in '85.
But you forget about the special place for Microsoft under the law. It can use "Window" without infringing on "X Window System," it can even use "X" (for X-box) without infringing on "X Window System" or causing the slightest amount of confusion about what "X programming" is.
Uhh, you're stretching the truth a bit. I don't think you can place a trademark on a letter of the alphabet. I understand that you're a LinuxZealot®, and that you need to lie. But this isn't appropriate. See, little white lies are appropriate at other times, like, say, when you catch your father jacking off in a gay men's bath house. But I digress. Point is that you are showing the maturity of a 2-year-old.
He must have meant 'switched distrobutions'... cause there's so damn many, each specialized in their own way! It's like Lay's potato chips... you can't have just one!
You know, there's something about a parasite that licks people that I think just might be bad for business...
The sole fact that you use AOL should make it illegal for you to use stupid, asinine names like MicroSquish and M$... You're probably one of those people that boots into Linux to use pico to edit text files, but boots back to Win98 so "I can use AOL!!" Yeah this may be flamebait, but the parent post is bullshit. Pure bullshit.
"Here's how you can help. We are composing a list of the many hundreds of products named "Windows Something" or "Something Windows" or even variations on the word windows, which are not from Microsoft. We know there are many, many products that fit this characterization and we could use your assistance to help us create this list. We are looking for hardware products, software products, products for any operating system and even operating systems themselves"
Hardware, well only thing I can think of is that pane of glass in my wall... umm, unless he's talking about boxes of hardware that say "Designed for Microsoft Windows."
Software. Wow. Hmm... how about anything named "XXXXX for Windows".
My favorite part is the "even operating systems themselves." That's funny. Cause the only OS that I know of that has 'Windows' in its name is...well... Windows!
This guy hasn't a leg to stand on. I think he likes getting himself into trouble and then making up bullshit excuses for why his interpretation of the law is right. I'm certainly not for the RIAA (H.R. can lick my nards), but it's kind of like him explaining why the MP3s on my.mp3.com were..uh.. 'legal.' By his interpretation anyway.
Face it, this guy knows he did wrong. Just think what would have happened if Microsoft named their Internet browser Metscape Mavigator.... But it begins with M (for Microsoft)! It's different!
Oh, and for the curious, here is their privacy policy:
"Contact Information: Some areas of the Site request or require contact and other information. During the registration process, we collect information such as your name, mailing address, and e-mail address. Your contact information may be used to get in touch with you when necessary with respect to transactions conducted through the Site or for other internal purposes. We do not share your contact information with any third party without your consent, except to a court or governmental agency if permitted by law, as authorized by a court of competent jurisdiction or to the limited extent described below under "Certain Third Party Transactions". "
Looks like that just flew out the door... er, window.
Hmm... Well I do remember booting to the Finder off an 800K floppy... whether it was System 1 (I'm pretty sure) or system 2 I don't really remember....
Have you ever scored some coed coochie on the by performing this act?
Of course in System 1 you booted your MacPlus from an 800K diskette, kinda making it pointless to have a trash can on that small of a space.
I hear Hillary Clinton used shred on her Linux box during Whitewater.
I guess we could then consider the trolls as the Mujahideen of Slashdot... :D
Fascists are extremely conservative. The /. team is a bunch of libertarians, almost communist. There's a difference ;-)
Oh, yeah, building on that... Windows activation doesn't require any information except your country of orgin. It then sends the one-way hardware hash. So go suck an egg -- that is total bullshit you posted. God forbid someone mods it up as 'insightful.'
You, sir, are a dirty LUnix zealot troll.
You're right... it's all coming back to me now. Adv server creates the c:\inetpub\ and c:\asfroot for IIS and WMS respectively.
Actually, Win2k doesn't give you any install options besides the time zone (on a clean install). And therefore IIS IS NOT INSTALLED BY DEFAULT ON WIN2K PRO. You have to go into the Windows Components setup in Control Panel and install it manually. On Win2k server, I don't think it's installed by default either, you have to tell the setup wizard whether you want to make it a web server, file and print server, streaming media server, domain controller, etc.
Umm... almost all the links lead offsite to reliable news sources... such as Reuters, Washington Post, etc. So if you don't want to believe it, and think it's shite cause you're a left-wing liberal, well that's up to you. It's still a good page.
Hey, don't diss Drudge! :) His site is the shit. Always has all the latest-breaking headlines from lots of different news sites. Tons of other news links too.
Actually, you're right. They convert them to MS Word format before sending.
And, concerning .XLS, you hit the point!
I *hate*, really, when people publish their tables of data in .xls I had no Excel anywhere around (though most of the computers here are windows-based) and you go through hell trying to convert it in a reusable format.
Yeah, except for the character formatting, print area, formulas, embedded graphs... I can go on and on.
What's the big fucking deal anyway? I remember a few weeks ago when everyone on /. got their panties in a bunch because they were boycotting PDF cause the format isn't open. So what. Jesus Christ, just go download a fucking viewer. It's not that hard. Damn these OSS elitists can be some whiny bitches sometimes... When will they realize that the other 99.97% of they world doesn't care what they think or what their personal boycotts are about. The world will continue to use Word .doc format forever, and no amount of whining will ever change that.
Hmm, I guess then the next argument Dicky Stall-man's gonna make is that we should stop using Excel's .XLS format in favor of text-delimited files, and we should all abandon powerpoint in favor of good ole overhead transparencies.
What a crock of shit. This hippie needed something to write about, so he decided to bash Microsoft again.
My question: What about Wordperfect?!? I guess it's just as impractical to email WordPerfect .wpd files out ... of course Word will open and convert them.... and hey here's an idea: KOffice and StarOffice will open .doc files too!
Sorry, but his argument doesn't hold water.
f) CowboyNeal.NET
Novell's NDS works very well. Heck, even CNN (scroll to bottom of page) uses it!