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Quote:Have you even been reading my posts? I said "Conservative Party of Canada". That's a political party. The election is coming up.
What problems do you have with the conservative party of canada? I mean, they're not my first choice (mostly because they'd probably put a piece of human trash like mulroney in power), but what's got you so mad you won't even accept cash for a job for them that'll get done anyway if you don't?
(I was very much hoping Harris would decide to get in. I'd've voted for that guy in a second. He did things for ontario that the bleeding hard leeches(because the liberals have jobs) hated, and brought our province into years of prosperity. The only people who compained are the teachers, and to be frank, now that they have money, they've spent it on things like signs and colloseums(that's right, after all the bitching, we got a new auditorium with the money that could've gone to books! Blast that Mike Harris! We could have had this even SOONER!!!) and the meantime people now pay far less tax than in many parts of the country while actually paying back the deficit.)
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No offense to the pope or any roman catholic. But I believe that in old age a person should give up his worldly desires and devote himself to god in the true sense.
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I don't support *any* of the parties, except for the Green Party. If the Liberals or NDP asked me for a website, I'd say no even faster.
(but now I have a different web design job, from someone else.  )
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Could we please stop discussing political shit and get back to M$ shit?
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Microsoft is screwed over and they know it. First, Microsoft has their code leaked and yes it is the full code go to iexbeta.com for a lot of articles on it. Second, Microsoft may loose their windows trademark in the first week of march. That does not look to great for them. Third yes Microsoft did steal to get where they are today and I am not talking legally zack. In the beginning of Microsoft, Bill and the rest of his goons stole source from other companies to make their windows product. Fourth, there are better linux products out there to fit all desktop needs now. there is lindows which provides more software to click-n-run users than any other. Lycoris is also out. it provides the best windows solution by providing users wine and winex for all windows programs to work. You also can get a copy of windows 98 or ME to install over Lindows how can you beat that!!!? I think all linux needs now is just a good tv advertising company to put them on the air like IBM is doing now. Also as far as that goes, SCO is sueing all these linux distributers but why are they not sueing Lindows hmmmm why do they have a partnership with Lindows to not sue them but Microsoft feels it has the need to sue them? kind of odd as far as I can tell.
Also, the pope sucks because he represents a religion that does not follow the exact teachings of the book they study.
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Yes, yet again, more spamming about Lindows.
And I have two words for ya about MS stealing: prove it.
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Zack, you know very few things about how the real world works. You're still what? 12? You have a long way to go. Mike is absolutely right about M$. I have seen a documentary about foundation of microsoft.
I remember amiga, their only downfall was they were way ahead of their time. people were ignorant and they didnt advertise.
Mike, is there a free download for lycoris?
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Quote:Microsoft is screwed over and they know it.
I dont think that Microsoft are gonna be screwed over by this. Other companies have had major source code leaks and not been screwed over.
Quote:Microsoft has their code leaked and yes it is the full code go to iexbeta.com for a lot of articles on it.
It isnt the full source, it is parts of the source code for Windows 2000 and WindowsNT.
Quote:there is lindows which provides more software to click-n-run users than any other.
Actually there is lind---s (pronounced Lindash) after Microsoft won a ceast and desist against Lindows providing a competing product and infringing on the name Windows.
Quote:Fourth, there are better linux products out there to fit all desktop needs now.
Unfortunately, Linux does not yet fit all desktop needs. Linux excels as a server, but its desktop market has a long way to go yet. Linux still doesnt offer the wealth of applications available to Windows systems, it still lacks a large amount of user friendlyness and above all it lacks familarity to most users.
Quote:it provides the best windows solution by providing users wine and winex for all windows programs to work.
Wine does not allow you to flawless run all Windows programs, some windows programs will run with a few bugs in Wine, while others (such as the latest versions of Internet Explorer) will not run at all.
Quote:SCO is sueing all these linux distributers but why are they not sueing Lindows
The first part of SCO's case is against the 2.4 Linux kernel (and therefore all distributions which use the 2.4 kernel) containing code that has been illegally copied from the SCO Unix kernel. The second part of SCO's case is against IBM providing open sourced code for the Linux kernel based on derivative works of AIX which is licesened under SCO's UNIX technology.
esus saves.... Passes to Moses, shoots, he scores!
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He may be right, and I'm not saying he isn't. People hate Microsoft because it's natural: millions, possibly a billion people use their products. It is the largest company in the world. If, say, DVD Player company X was that large, there would be a group of people hating them, too.
But my point still stands: prove any illegal activity that Microsoft (as a company, not during Bill Gates' dreams) conducted. Point me to an article that lists its sources, and doesn't reside in some open-source freak scr1pt k1ddi3 website.
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wine and winex are supposed to be used to run simple applications. So complex applications like AutoCAD wont run. Also, it is a resource hog. You'll need a very lean machine for it to run smoothly.
Since 98% of the home users are using Microsoft products, most applications are coded for it. But for a home user whatever products that Linux offers are sufficient. For example, I built a Redhat Linux 9 system from scratch for my uncle. All he needs is:
1. An office suite (Open office)
2, Internet access(KPPP and wealth of other connections are supported)
3. A few games to kill time(plenty of them are around)
4. Multimedia apps(xmms)
Optionally he may want to burn CDs. I didnt need to install new apps as the built in apps were great. Only problem is that I needed to update them.
IMO the only thing that sucks about the linux desktop is installation of programs and configuring the system. But we are seeing apps like YAST coming up.
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