Microsoft hasn't really innovated in a long time. DirectX was probably thier only innovation, and most of thier other innovations have been attempts to crush companies that got a jump on them.
If they were truely into innovation they would invest more into NT on Alpha, instead of cancelling it and removing the major clustering bits out of Win 2000.
Thier freedom to innovate, really is a freedom to lobby for less competition and reduced advances in technology.
Well these legal agreements are fair enough, but do we really have to have an ever-increasing amount of legalese before we can actually find out the result of a/whois? Its going to get to the stage where a/whois query requires waiting for a few minutes while the disclaimer downloads.
I agree... I prefer the large and small notation. It would be hard to express this over a voice medium (eg telephone). Phonetically its hard to make out the difference between the two.
As far as I can see, destroying backups is illegal in two respects: 1) They are destroying evidence 2) They are destroying data that doesn't belong to themselves. This puts Harvard and JP in the same league as the crackers that they claim to deride and hate.
Everyone: Don't forget two things 1) The internal politics at netscape and mozilla is always a strain. Netscape tries to keep the current browser up to date, but doing this means keeping programmers away from Mozilla. There is resentment in both camps, remember some of JWZ's comments? 2) FUD is also a problem and is a direct a result of the politics here. When both sides are fighing for resources you will get rumors about this. Don't belive the FUD, the source is there, use it.
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Microsoft hasn't really innovated in a long time.
DirectX was probably thier only innovation, and most of thier other innovations have been attempts to crush companies that got a jump on them.
If they were truely into innovation they would invest more into NT on Alpha, instead of cancelling it and removing the major clustering bits out of Win 2000.
Thier freedom to innovate, really is a freedom to lobby for less competition and reduced advances in technology.
Well these legal agreements are fair enough, but do we really have to have an ever-increasing amount of legalese before we can actually find out the result of a /whois? Its going to get to the stage where a /whois query requires waiting for a few minutes while the disclaimer downloads.
I agree... I prefer the large and small notation. It would be hard to express this over a voice medium (eg telephone). Phonetically its hard to make out the difference between the two.
As far as I can see, destroying backups is illegal in two respects: 1) They are destroying evidence 2) They are destroying data that doesn't belong to themselves. This puts Harvard and JP in the same league as the crackers that they claim to deride and hate.
Everyone: Don't forget two things 1) The internal politics at netscape and mozilla is always a strain. Netscape tries to keep the current browser up to date, but doing this means keeping programmers away from Mozilla. There is resentment in both camps, remember some of JWZ's comments? 2) FUD is also a problem and is a direct a result of the politics here. When both sides are fighing for resources you will get rumors about this. Don't belive the FUD, the source is there, use it.