I wonder if there's a law that states what search engines can do as regards the contents they list. Surely, if they start blocking all "linux" sites or other competitor's and merely making it another showcase for their own products, wouldn't that be violating the basic internet philosophy of sharing information etc without any tampering?
This is getting ridiculous. I don't see why US doesn't take the steps Germany did, and make them pay a fine and stfu!
Someone ought to leash the dogs....
Sounds like what RedHat is doing with their distro - RHEL is commercial while Fedora (previously called RedHat linux) is completely free.
The former comes with support etc and is good for enterprise-level work, while the latter relies on community support and is fit for Home and Desktop users.
Are they really THAT short of money? I'm sure they'll need to pull some other trick out of their hat if they want people to fall for this all over again.
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Indeed! They'll be feeding paper the wrong way ;)
Perhaps the message they're trying to send to all dialup users is - "Upgrade!"
You can say they got BIC-SLAC'ed by /.
I wonder if there's a law that states what search engines can do as regards the contents they list. Surely, if they start blocking all "linux" sites or other competitor's and merely making it another showcase for their own products, wouldn't that be violating the basic internet philosophy of sharing information etc without any tampering?
This is getting ridiculous. I don't see why US doesn't take the steps Germany did, and make them pay a fine and stfu! Someone ought to leash the dogs....
Sounds like what RedHat is doing with their distro - RHEL is commercial while Fedora (previously called RedHat linux) is completely free. The former comes with support etc and is good for enterprise-level work, while the latter relies on community support and is fit for Home and Desktop users.
In other news, Microsoft released to the Press that they have decided to name their next release as "WinXP: Temple of Doom" instead of Reloaded.
Fsck school! I'm off to get myself some patents....
Are they really THAT short of money? I'm sure they'll need to pull some other trick out of their hat if they want people to fall for this all over again.
I came. I saw. I Konqueror-ed.
I think you mean Austin Powers :-P
Perhaps they haven't yet heard of the aliens' newest project - PSYCHIATRISTS.
Windows 3.1/95, you mean?