Everyone else uses that same OS because everyone else could ONLY buy that OS on a new computer for years and years.
Ergo, Microsoft had a monopoly and used illegal practices to maintain said monopoly.
Uh yeah and Microsoft originally *GOT* that monopoly how... a gift from God? Saying that Microsoft is only successful because of their monopoly status is a dumb chicken and egg statement -- if they weren't wildly successful to begin with, the monopoly wouldn't ever have become an issue.
Jest aside, I've never gotten why most peripherals hardware can't subscribe to a simple abstracted interface - scanners & printers for instance. There's really no excuse for all the differing "standards".
Yeah and they could call it "USB". Why hasn't someone thought of this?
System Shock 2, Thief, Deus Ex-- these are the games that are consistently lauded as the masterpieces of the genre
Any single one of the Quake or Doom games by itself outsold System Shock 2, Thief and Deux Ex combined. In other words, the majority doesn't agree with you. I guess we "just don't get it", huh?
On the other hand the DMCA does explicitly make a safe harbor for reverse engineering for interoperability. So this could be a case where the DMCA actually suddenly gives you the right to distribute a MS executable however you want.
Uh no it couldn't. While the DMCA does have provisions for reverse engineering it doesn't "suddenly" give you permission to violate existing copyright law for the sake of doing the reverse engineering.
Microsoft still owns all copyright to their original program and you still can't redistribute it without permission, period.
Can you imagine that Microsoft would raid HP, IBM or Oracle for software licenses on their windows machines, which they use to produce software for Microsoft platforms? What if they would decide to drop the M$ platform? Ouch, tough call. Nobody wants to sail these waters.
Uh there's no way IBM, HP or Oracle would drop MS support, it would be complete company suicide for them to do so. Think, then post!
The most likely result of this wouldn't be anyone dropping MS support, but a tit-for-tat situation where the large companies keep having each other raided.
Is this the same trailer that was after the credits of Reloaded?
Yes. What a letdown. I was hoping for some new footage.
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They are as much Doom and Wolfenstein3D like as Snood is Tetris like
You realize, of course, that Snood is essentially an exact clone of Bust-a-move (aka Puzzle Bobble) just minus the Taito-owned characters and with a new name, right?
I doubt that. Real Estate is a massive business world wide.
Yeah but how many Real Estate agents read Freshmeat? Even if the Read Estate industry is massive (and it is), this guys market is much smaller unless he gets the word out to the general public, which involves spending lots of money on advertising... Which is, of course, silly to do for a free project.
Nice rationalization, but Blender's UI sucks because no thought went into it. If any did, where is Undo/Redo? How could an app exist in 2003 without unlimited undo/redo? Its just ridiculous!
Generally the only DLLs you'd use with Visual Studio that you can't redistribute legally are the debug versions of all the libraries, and Microsoft prohibits distribution of those mainly to stop developers from shooting their own feet off.
According to CIOs and studies such as the one the Peopleware book is based on the *majority* of started software projects fail. Why should we expect Microsoft to buck the norm here?
in the hopes people don't remember that many 'new' Microsoft ideas are recycled from its own history."
Microsoft's try-try-again philosophy and focused determination are why it is at the top of the heap of software companies and why they are sitting on the 45 billion in cash now.
This being Slashdot, people will say that the reason Microsoft is so big is because of its monopoly position, but that is a (rather silly) chicken and egg argument. They'd have no monopoly if they weren't big to begin with -- they certainly weren't a government granted monopoly like AT&T once was.
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Learn how to spell before you post again.
Or I'll break your fucking nose.
Bitch.
John Q. broke the law by downloading a copy -- fair use gives him duplication rights, but downloading a song off the net isn't duplicating his copy.
Uh yeah and Microsoft originally *GOT* that monopoly how... a gift from God? Saying that Microsoft is only successful because of their monopoly status is a dumb chicken and egg statement -- if they weren't wildly successful to begin with, the monopoly wouldn't ever have become an issue.
Yeah and 640k should be enough for everyone...
Yeah and they could call it "USB". Why hasn't someone thought of this?
So what you're saying is Soviet Russia is just like everywhere else?
We're gonna need a bunch more astronauts up in here.
Hey moron, when is the last time Microsoft initiated a patent lawsuit?
Any single one of the Quake or Doom games by itself outsold System Shock 2, Thief and Deux Ex combined. In other words, the majority doesn't agree with you. I guess we "just don't get it", huh?
Dick.
Uh no it couldn't. While the DMCA does have provisions for reverse engineering it doesn't "suddenly" give you permission to violate existing copyright law for the sake of doing the reverse engineering.
Microsoft still owns all copyright to their original program and you still can't redistribute it without permission, period.
Uh there's no way IBM, HP or Oracle would drop MS support, it would be complete company suicide for them to do so. Think, then post!
The most likely result of this wouldn't be anyone dropping MS support, but a tit-for-tat situation where the large companies keep having each other raided.
Yeah well except for the fact that these are prototype screenshots put together by UI and graphic designers, not developers. You dipshit.
Yes. What a letdown. I was hoping for some new footage.
You realize, of course, that Snood is essentially an exact clone of Bust-a-move (aka Puzzle Bobble) just minus the Taito-owned characters and with a new name, right?
But yeah, it is stupid.
Just because they are in Norway is no excuse for making simple spelling errors. Shame on you for saying otherwise.
And since his name is Jesus, are they going to nail him to a cross?
We must do something about this -- think of the children!
Yeah but how many Real Estate agents read Freshmeat? Even if the Read Estate industry is massive (and it is), this guys market is much smaller unless he gets the word out to the general public, which involves spending lots of money on advertising... Which is, of course, silly to do for a free project.
That is the dorkiest thing I've ever heard of you fucking nerd. Now get back into the damn locker before I give you another wedgie.
Seriously... DORKS!
Nice rationalization, but Blender's UI sucks because no thought went into it. If any did, where is Undo/Redo? How could an app exist in 2003 without unlimited undo/redo? Its just ridiculous!
Generally the only DLLs you'd use with Visual Studio that you can't redistribute legally are the debug versions of all the libraries, and Microsoft prohibits distribution of those mainly to stop developers from shooting their own feet off.
in the hopes people don't remember that many 'new' Microsoft ideas are recycled from its own history."
Microsoft's try-try-again philosophy and focused determination are why it is at the top of the heap of software companies and why they are sitting on the 45 billion in cash now.
This being Slashdot, people will say that the reason Microsoft is so big is because of its monopoly position, but that is a (rather silly) chicken and egg argument. They'd have no monopoly if they weren't big to begin with -- they certainly weren't a government granted monopoly like AT&T once was.