If anyone had RTFA at http://www.viguard.com/en/intro_en.php/ and gone to the bottom of the page to the link "TEGAM International against Guillermito" (Guillame Tena) They would have seen that Tena is not a computer expert he is a blogging biologist who for four years slandered and spread fud on Viguard on 15 discussion groups, Tena activly searched for questions about Viguard and presented false tests about the software (Viguard answers each of them in the article) Created a virus using copyrighted files (PCPASS) and now the court is handing him his ass. His blog is a complete lie about why he is in court, or that it had anything to do with reverse engineering or his rights. And no one at slashdot or zdnet even bothered to check with Viguard to see what the truth is. You've been had.
The reason Martin Taylor has a job is because MS can't compete with Linux. MS lost the server market, IE is losing market share at an alarming rate, even MS's own magazine Slate had an article telling IE users to switch to FireFox for their own safty. Entire countries are switching. The EU is even taking action against MS and software patents are being questioned in the EU. The point of the article and the redicule it recives is to point out that MS can't compete. Martin Taylor bull shit is all they can produce, not better software.;) Have a nice day.
The problem isn't the vastness of the US or monopolies, or the lack of competition, its taxes. In a speach on CSPAN a few years ago the head of Comcast when asked why the cost of cable keeps going up, said "80% of your $42.00 basic cable cos have nothing to do with Comcast as a business, running a cable to your home, or providing content. It is city,county,state and federal taxes." In my area to get cable it would cost me $42.95 plus $3.00 a month for modem rental. Added to my basic cable costs, it would be $87.95 a month. Not only is it too expensive, 80% of this cost is taxes. How can they expect the poor to pay such outrageous taxes? And while some of these articles mention the cost, they never mention why the costs are so high. Now I belive that taxes must be paid to fund services, but when a service like internet access is taxed to the point where average wage earners can't afford it is foolish. Perhaps someone can write a truthful article about the true costs instead of strawman arguements.
Perhaps people are finally ON to Microsoft. I'm glad Apache and the FSF stood up to them. Everyone that deals with them pays in the end. They should be avoided at all costs.
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Reminds me of when M$ changed WebTv to run on windows, totally screwed things up. Lost files etc.
Now I can finally get a new laptop.
If anyone had RTFA at http://www.viguard.com/en/intro_en.php/ and gone to the bottom of the page to the link "TEGAM International against Guillermito" (Guillame Tena) They would have seen that Tena is not a computer expert he is a blogging biologist who for four years slandered and spread fud on Viguard on 15 discussion groups, Tena activly searched for questions about Viguard and presented false tests about the software (Viguard answers each of them in the article) Created a virus using copyrighted files (PCPASS) and now the court is handing him his ass. His blog is a complete lie about why he is in court, or that it had anything to do with reverse engineering or his rights. And no one at slashdot or zdnet even bothered to check with Viguard to see what the truth is. You've been had.
The reason Martin Taylor has a job is because MS can't compete with Linux. MS lost the server market, IE is losing market share at an alarming rate, even MS's own magazine Slate had an article telling IE users to switch to FireFox for their own safty. Entire countries are switching. The EU is even taking action against MS and software patents are being questioned in the EU. The point of the article and the redicule it recives is to point out that MS can't compete. Martin Taylor bull shit is all they can produce, not better software. ;) Have a nice day.
The problem isn't the vastness of the US or monopolies, or the lack of competition, its taxes. In a speach on CSPAN a few years ago the head of Comcast when asked why the cost of cable keeps going up, said "80% of your $42.00 basic cable cos have nothing to do with Comcast as a business, running a cable to your home, or providing content. It is city,county,state and federal taxes." In my area to get cable it would cost me $42.95 plus $3.00 a month for modem rental. Added to my basic cable costs, it would be $87.95 a month. Not only is it too expensive, 80% of this cost is taxes. How can they expect the poor to pay such outrageous taxes? And while some of these articles mention the cost, they never mention why the costs are so high. Now I belive that taxes must be paid to fund services, but when a service like internet access is taxed to the point where average wage earners can't afford it is foolish. Perhaps someone can write a truthful article about the true costs instead of strawman arguements.
I am the Walrus is a song on the Magical Mystery Tour LP. Hum, I need to get the CD.
Perhaps people are finally ON to Microsoft. I'm glad Apache and the FSF stood up to them. Everyone that deals with them pays in the end. They should be avoided at all costs.