User: Eric Bishop

Re:Shove it

On: EU Prepared to Fine Microsoft $2.5 Million Per Day

You really shouldn't get all your information about this topic from Microsoft's P.R.-departement.

It's peanuts for the EU.

On: EU Prepared to Fine Microsoft $2.5 Million Per Day

The budget of the EU is >1% of the GDP of all the EU countries. And the combined GDP of all EU countries is slightly larger than that of the USA. Please at least a bit of information about the world before posting in a public and internationl forum and making a fool of yourself.

Re:Not just patches

On: Microsoft's Security Disclosures Come Under Fire

Well, the target audience of windows doesn't actual understand what a segmentation violation is, so they are treated like the PHB and get just an executive summary. Now at least the whining about this "strange" and "technical" messages will stop.

Advertising?

On: Firefox Update Kills Bugs, Adds Mac Support

OT, but /. should really think about a better way to target the advertising. I don't think anyone is interested in "Comparing prices on Mozilla".

Leaving the USA?

On: SUSE Requests Arbitration with SCO

I'm wondering when the first hightech/IT-companies will leave the USA because they don't want to risk to fight years in court to get a filing without any evidence dismissed. How long is this SCOX vs. IBM/Novell/Linux/rest of the world going? Can a legal system that allows a circus like this really allow a competive economy? *ranting* and *complaining*

Too late

On: Should Companies Delay Products for More Features?

If you're asking yourself at the end of the development cycle if you really need some features, why have they survived the design phase?