I wish I'd done more research on hardware compatibility,
particularly motherboards, because installing 64-bit Linux
has been a bitch.
I think you'll find that FreeBSD has moved ahead quite
nicely on AMD64 and you could well have better results
than Linux. By all accounts 5.2 is pretty solid on all tier
1 platforms.
Whilst the kid has been dumb, he's got an excuse for it - he's young
and he doesn't know the law.
He seems to have infringed their trademark by providing services
similar to Microsofts whilst simultaneously acknowledging that he used
the domain because it was similar sounding to theirs. I think he would
lose any suit M$ cared to take against him (IANAL)
But M$ have been considerably dumber. If IBM had set up a
mikrowsoft.com and sold web services through it I could see the
necessity of hiring lawyers and Fed Ex'ing them threatening stuff, but
this is a 17 yr old kid and they've just publicly made themselves look
like a big bullying monopolist (foot, aim, fire!)
If M$ have got a clue they'll give the kid $10,000, publicly apologise
for picking on him and cream off some badly needed good publicity,
publicity that would be worth well in excess of 10k.
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I wish I'd done more research on hardware compatibility, particularly motherboards, because installing 64-bit Linux has been a bitch.
I think you'll find that FreeBSD has moved ahead quite nicely on AMD64 and you could well have better results than Linux. By all accounts 5.2 is pretty solid on all tier 1 platforms.
That's even worse than talking about man-uals and other sexist remarks, the insensitive clods!
I note also that RAM is a male sheep. Why not EWE? Because NASA is full of women and disabled person oppressors that's why!
Pull their funding and disband NASA.
Whilst the kid has been dumb, he's got an excuse for it - he's young and he doesn't know the law.
He seems to have infringed their trademark by providing services similar to Microsofts whilst simultaneously acknowledging that he used the domain because it was similar sounding to theirs. I think he would lose any suit M$ cared to take against him (IANAL)
But M$ have been considerably dumber. If IBM had set up a mikrowsoft.com and sold web services through it I could see the necessity of hiring lawyers and Fed Ex'ing them threatening stuff, but this is a 17 yr old kid and they've just publicly made themselves look like a big bullying monopolist (foot, aim, fire!)
If M$ have got a clue they'll give the kid $10,000, publicly apologise for picking on him and cream off some badly needed good publicity, publicity that would be worth well in excess of 10k.