Regulators (and judges) should not complain or make comments about the law, as much as law makers should not comment on how it is applied. If the limit was set (purportedly) low by the law maker, the regulator has to apply it and shut up. If they want to make laws get elected first.
as Old97 said -- MS bought patents, not copyrights. Netscape browser code was open sourced by Netscape just before its demise. Mozilla is not a complete re-write. It is based on said open sourced code.
Something useful the competition authorities (US, EU,...) could do is the check MS OEM contracts, to see if and how they distort the OEM capacity to offer non-MS OSs in pcs, tablets, phones, and so on.
Surprised that Google is not in the list, as they have been big supporters and enablers of linux and the Chrome OS is going to be (quite) a new Linux distro.
they should (i) check ms oem contracts and why is is nearly impossible to find consumer (or corporate) pcs without ms installed (ii) prohibit proprietary of corrupted standards for public services (including video, docs, databases, etc)
wrong credits PC - IBM and Apple Internet browser - Netscape "Grandma who wants to set up a webcam so she can chat with her grandchildren? She doesn't want to have to sit and hack kernels for hours. She wants Plug-and-Play" - have you used a linux system lately? better plug and play than ws
"Linux lost because it's very rough around the edges and it's a scary thing going into a piece of technology on a large scale when you are not 100% guaranteed it will work" i) Linux lost because the specs said MS only ii) Since when MS (or any vendor) guarantee 100% it will work?
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They didn't. They copied lotus 123 and word-perfect. As they did later with Netscape. They always surfed existing waves....
if you kill your channel, you kill your sales...
these people do not get it?
he knows better
And these comments by the EC spokesman are unfortunate.
Regulators (and judges) should not complain or make comments about the law, as much as law makers should not comment on how it is applied. If the limit was set (purportedly) low by the law maker, the regulator has to apply it and shut up. If they want to make laws get elected first.
music is drm free since 2009 only
as Old97 said -- MS bought patents, not copyrights.
Netscape browser code was open sourced by Netscape just before its demise. Mozilla is not a complete re-write. It is
based on said open sourced code.
Something useful the competition authorities (US, EU, ...) could do is the check MS OEM contracts, to see if and how they distort the OEM capacity to offer non-MS OSs in pcs, tablets, phones, and so on.
Mozilla is not a competitor. Google does not sell browsers, it sells ads, and mozilla is one more channel.
But th ship is also in the ocean, so maybe you can use the same solution the cruise ship uses.
is pornographic?
Bravo!!
If you don't like it -- change it yourself --
if you have the skills to do it.
This is something you can not do with closed source
and is the big difference btw the two.
we will all pay a steep price for our hypocrisy contempt and cowardice towards China human rights abuse, censorship, lies and manipulation
RM has proved many times to be intellectually dishonest and manipulator. this is just one more instance.
efficiency rate? / emissions?
that might infringe their patent
Surprised that Google is not in the list, as they have been big supporters and enablers of linux and the Chrome OS is going to be (quite) a new Linux distro.
I quit smoking cigarettes years ago. I smoke a small cigar after dinner and 2-3 snus tobacco during the day. Thats all the nicotine i need.
they should (i) check ms oem contracts and why is is nearly impossible to find consumer (or corporate) pcs without ms installed (ii) prohibit proprietary of corrupted standards for public services (including video, docs, databases, etc)
summary is wrong.and the assumption is the usual stereotype boy=bad girl= good
wrong credits
PC - IBM and Apple
Internet browser - Netscape
"Grandma who wants to set up a webcam so she can chat with her grandchildren? She doesn't want to have to sit and hack kernels for hours. She wants Plug-and-Play" - have you used a linux system lately? better plug and play than ws
"Linux lost because it's very rough around the edges and it's a scary thing going into a piece of technology on a large scale when you are not 100% guaranteed it will work"
i) Linux lost because the specs said MS only
ii) Since when MS (or any vendor) guarantee 100% it will work?
what they do with their own s...
Bravo!