Seriously, they must be counting everything from Win 3.x that wasn't bought as an "upgrade". They're at the very least counting every new Dell that gets bought and promptly reformatted for Linux (or BSD even).
The world only has 6.6 billion people (google for "world population"). Once you figure some people are too young to even know what a computer is, some are physically disabled to the point of not being able to use a computer, many elderly couldn't care less about a computer and then the billions who can't afford one; Something like this would have to mean that every single person who has a computer runs Windows on something like a hundred systems or so.
Yeah right. You can't even get me to install it on one system.
To the mods: How is this redundant to the article?
"And Microsoft's own prices have dropped so low it now sells a $3 package of Windows and Office to students."
Maybe you should read before you just go pushing buttons
Now that they have no competition, they can mark the price back up a thousandfold where it belongs.
Cover their "losses"? How do you lose something you never had to begin with?
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"Although we met several technical challenges along the way (specifically, Linux's lack of Token Ring support and the fact that we were unable to defrag its ext2 file system)," First off: http://www.linux.com/howtos/Token-Ring/intro.shtml And, for defraging an ext2 filesystem: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You're an idiot!
"So you can imagine our suprise when we were informed by a lawyer that we would be required to publish our source code for others to use." The only time you'd have to publish your code for others to use is if you:
A: Have taken actual GPL code and modified it - this is not the same as creating code that works WITH GPL code AND (&& != ||)
B: You are distributing said code - in which case, you must give WHOEVER YOU DISTRIBUTE THE CODE TO the source for said code
"Unfortunately for us, this meant that the great deal of time and money we spent "touching up" Linux to work for this investment firm would now be available at no cost to our competitors." No, read above
"Furthermore, after reviewing this GPL our lawyers advised us that any products compiled with GPL'ed tools - such as gcc - would also have to its source code released. This was simply unacceptable." HAHAHAHAHAHA! You're REALLY an idiot!
"Although we had planned for no one outside of this company to ever use, let alone see the source code, we were now put in a difficult position. We could either give away our hard work, or come up with another solution. Although it was tought to do, there really was no option: We had to rewrite the code, from scratch, for Windows 2000." Because you're an idiot that can't read. You need to fire that laywer, btw.
"Thank you for your time." I wonder how much you got paid for yours to write this - I know Microsoft does pay well.
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Seriously, they must be counting everything from Win 3.x that wasn't bought as an "upgrade". They're at the very least counting every new Dell that gets bought and promptly reformatted for Linux (or BSD even).
The world only has 6.6 billion people (google for "world population"). Once you figure some people are too young to even know what a computer is, some are physically disabled to the point of not being able to use a computer, many elderly couldn't care less about a computer and then the billions who can't afford one; Something like this would have to mean that every single person who has a computer runs Windows on something like a hundred systems or so.
Yeah right. You can't even get me to install it on one system.
To the mods: How is this redundant to the article? "And Microsoft's own prices have dropped so low it now sells a $3 package of Windows and Office to students." Maybe you should read before you just go pushing buttons
All this just after Microsoft decides to come down to pirate copy prices in Chinaf t_china/index.html
http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/07/10/microso
Now that they have no competition, they can mark the price back up a thousandfold where it belongs.
Cover their "losses"? How do you lose something you never had to begin with?
"Although we met several technical challenges along the wayl
(specifically, Linux's lack of Token Ring support and the fact that we
were unable to defrag its ext2 file system),"
First off: http://www.linux.com/howtos/Token-Ring/intro.shtm
And, for defraging an ext2 filesystem: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You're an idiot!
"So you can imagine our suprise when we were informed by a lawyer that
we would be required to publish our source code for others to use."
The only time you'd have to publish your code for others to use is if you:
A: Have taken actual GPL code and modified it - this is not the same as creating code that works WITH GPL code
AND (&& != ||)
B: You are distributing said code - in which case, you must give WHOEVER YOU DISTRIBUTE THE CODE TO the source for said code
"Unfortunately for us, this meant that the great deal of time and money
we spent "touching up" Linux to work for this investment firm would
now be available at no cost to our competitors."
No, read above
"Furthermore, after reviewing this GPL our lawyers advised us that any
products compiled with GPL'ed tools - such as gcc - would also have to
its source code released. This was simply unacceptable."
HAHAHAHAHAHA! You're REALLY an idiot!
"Although we had planned for no one outside of this company to ever
use, let alone see the source code, we were now put in a difficult
position. We could either give away our hard work, or come up with
another solution. Although it was tought to do, there really was no
option: We had to rewrite the code, from scratch, for Windows 2000."
Because you're an idiot that can't read. You need to fire that laywer, btw.
"Thank you for your time."
I wonder how much you got paid for yours to write this - I know Microsoft does pay well.