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There's a long history of law suits against Microsoft...but the lawsuits really can't exceed a few billion. So, every time someone tries, MS would just shrug and hand over the money.
But I don't support all this MS-bashing. I just think they make a really great OS, and really great software. So sue me. (pun intended.  )
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Quote:But I don't support all this MS-bashing. I just think they make a really great OS
Im not bashing MS, Im posting this story out of interest and I believe that if this isn't a hoax it may have some effect on the operating system market over the next few years. Whether it is too Microsofts benefit or not is yet to be seen.
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IMHO you're making an understatement. This would shake the foundations of Microsoft. Their Windows 2000 and Windows NT OSes would be pretty much rendered useless in the eyes of administrators.
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Quote:With the open source community, there are a large percentage of tinkers and 'ankle biters' who are trying their hand at hacking. Some are even communicating with each other. So it only takes one or two of these groups sharing information to be able to pull something off. When you have this type of passion, it's hard to fight because these people are like virtual suicide car bombers.
Yeah, thats right, Open Source people are just like suicide bombers.
Hey everyone, we have just been labeled as suicide bombers, because we share our code.
*picks up bomb and goes out to car to drive to nearest MS office*
And guess what, some of the open source people are actually communicating with each other... ARGH!!.... ARREST THEM!
Seriously, it would't surprise me if it was all some PR stunt by MS themselves, it comes at a little to handy time for them, with the SCO lawsuit, their new OS comming up, and the TCPA things http://www.AgainstTCPA.com
Hey, Zack, MS just called you a terrorist, and according to US law that makes them able to put you in jail.. for virtually (hehe, virtual, lol) nothing.
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It's not a PR stunt...a core dump was found with the leak that indicates it was leaked by somebody from Mainsoft.
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Z!re, only the US government can do that. The private sector has no control over the enforcement of the Patriot Act (thankfully).
Regardless of whatever stunt SCO, MS, or any other would-be wants to pull off, I'll always be an open-source supporter. All this negativity against open source is simply backlash from lost profits due to people realizing that commercial applications have sucked for the past five years and people are looking towards, and finding, legitimate alternatives.
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Quote:Hey, Zack, MS just called you a terrorist, and according to US law that makes them able to put you in jail.. for virtually (hehe, virtual, lol) nothing.
Huh? how?!
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DP, the Patriot Act allows the US government to arbitrarily arrest and incarcerate anyone who *might* be a terrorist. They don't even have to have a warrant, and if you're taken in this way, you're not obligated to a fair trial either. The Patriot Act is a gigantic spit on the face of the forefathers of the USA, as it is a direct contradiction to the Constitution and all the principles this nation was founded on. There isn't anything anyone can do about it either, since it was signed in by the President, and even if Congress were to overturn it, he could overturn the overturning because he has that kind of power. Basically...we have to wait until we have a Democrat in office before we can rid the country of the barrel-feeding scum-sucker that is George W Bush and his freedom-raping Patriot Act. And when his scumbag arse is kicked out of the White House, I'm going to laugh in his face for being such a moron redneck who is only president because Jeb Bush in Florida messed with the voting results.
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I've never been extremely fanatic about this open-source thing...It's just useful, if you ask me, not any weird, elite "passion" or whatever...
Making software is like making food. You don't leak your ingredients if they are unique and make you money.
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I hate it when I have no friggin' idea what anyone's talking about... knowing it's bad.
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