I realize this is a joke more than anything, but if you did that you'd be violating not only Microsoft's EULA for the site, but the GPL as well, and thus could get sued by the FSF or whoever owns the GPL code.
Uh, no. the finding of fact differs with you. MS become big in the dos days. They did it be using their monopoly. They recently paid.5 billion to ray norda's lineo becuase they illegaly screwed over Dr. Dos.
How on earth could they have USED THEIR MONOPOLY to get big enough to BE A MONOPOLY? Microsoft wasn't a government sanctioned monopoly like AT&T. Even if you're a die-hard Linux zealot, you have to admit that they somehow managed to get to the top by some other method than abusing their monopoly (since they didn't have a monopoly until they were well entrenched at the top, duh.)
Failing to accept that maybe Microsoft did something right (even if it was marketing more than technology) and hasn't always relied on its monopoly to get ahead is just stupid.
I don't really see the problem with the legacy ports, nor with the ethernet ports - 2 is more than usual but gives you flexibility. AFAIK most people don't use USB for their 'core' peripherals - the keyboard and mouse.
If you run a real OS, like Windows, USB support is good enough to run your keyboard and mouse on it. Its only the shitty stuff like Linux that has issues with USB devices. Commie Fag.
As part of its language chooser control panel, KDE includes the flags of virtually every nation on earth. RedHat removed it (and even logged it as a bug fix in their CVS!), quite obviously at the behest of the PRC (Communist China) government, which doesn't officially recognize the independence of Taiwan.
Why is it freedom only goes on to the point where it offends you, and then it becomes money-grubbing?
You know that if the shoe were on the other foot and it was Microsoft who was doing this, all the Slashbots would be howling at what a bunch of money grubbers they are. Which flag goes next due to pressure? The Palestinian flag (for better sales in Israel)? The Pakistani flag (for better sales in India)? Who should be authorized to make these calls?
Red Hat..Really living up to the name! Way to show that Open Source != Communism, Red Hat! Bow down to your masters in Beijing!
Jeff, kindly go to http://www.redhat.com/ and find me a link to the FSF. Or even a reference to "Free Software."
Not everyone who uses Linux thinks that Free Software is a viable moral argument; some of them just use it because it is free-as-in-no-cost, not free-as-in-freedom.
The one where they not only reference "Free Software" MULTIPLE TIMES but include 3 links to the FSF in the space of about 2 paragraphs?
Feel like a fool? You should. On the plus side, you could probably get a job as a Slashdot editor considering the skill you just showed in spouting off without doing any basic double checking to make sure you're right before you post.
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I realize this is a joke more than anything, but if you did that you'd be violating not only Microsoft's EULA for the site, but the GPL as well, and thus could get sued by the FSF or whoever owns the GPL code.
How on earth could they have USED THEIR MONOPOLY to get big enough to BE A MONOPOLY? Microsoft wasn't a government sanctioned monopoly like AT&T. Even if you're a die-hard Linux zealot, you have to admit that they somehow managed to get to the top by some other method than abusing their monopoly (since they didn't have a monopoly until they were well entrenched at the top, duh.)
Failing to accept that maybe Microsoft did something right (even if it was marketing more than technology) and hasn't always relied on its monopoly to get ahead is just stupid.
If you run a real OS, like Windows, USB support is good enough to run your keyboard and mouse on it. Its only the shitty stuff like Linux that has issues with USB devices. Commie Fag.
You know that if the shoe were on the other foot and it was Microsoft who was doing this, all the Slashbots would be howling at what a bunch of money grubbers they are. Which flag goes next due to pressure? The Palestinian flag (for better sales in Israel)? The Pakistani flag (for better sales in India)? Who should be authorized to make these calls?
Red Hat..Really living up to the name! Way to show that Open Source != Communism, Red Hat! Bow down to your masters in Beijing!
Not everyone who uses Linux thinks that Free Software is a viable moral argument; some of them just use it because it is free-as-in-no-cost, not free-as-in-freedom.
How about right on their MISSION STATEMENT?
http://sources.redhat.com/mission.html
The one where they not only reference "Free Software" MULTIPLE TIMES but include 3 links to the FSF in the space of about 2 paragraphs?
Feel like a fool? You should. On the plus side, you could probably get a job as a Slashdot editor considering the skill you just showed in spouting off without doing any basic double checking to make sure you're right before you post.