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develop windoze apps using linux
ken Do you need to deliver a binary or just source code? If you need to...
iptables: filtering large number of IP addresses
r dind I found that to administer a firewall connected to the Internet, the number of IP...
Spontaneous partial cure for insomnia on ThinkPad 600X
This is a tale of Linux and a ThinkPad 600X that I installed Mandriva 2005 onto a while back. I hadn't been able to get...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5124
Xah Lee, I went through some of your web site, because of time couldn't examine (but a few) code guides. Read all you philosophy pages though, even about languages I didn't know. I took...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ
Interesting. Standard Oil only had about 2-3 of the oil refining market when they were split up. And Microsoft has a...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5126
Yup, and what will they pick? I think that we both understand that one browser will be more...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5127
John Bokma The one of their choice. Nobody knows which one that will be. Maybe MS. But that's not...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5128
Let me guess: Microsoft. I am quite sure about that one. I doubt that. But even if...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5129
John Bokma No, I do not think that MS is the only company that uses shady tactics. Also I didn't use the word 'evil', since I think it is too strong for...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5130
If just one got convicted it means that some got away with it, and still am. Not the differences I am talking about. There is...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5131
Ok, let me spell it out for you: If all your applications are web based, and the OS shouldn't matter, why do Linux distributions matter? It...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5132
By the way, this is based on the same flawed premise that a lot of post-Y2K griping was based on. It went like this, "wow, we get all concerned and spent...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5133
John Bokma By giving IE away for free, by ripping off spyglbutt, by paying OEMs to not include Netscape. By bundling IE. By abusing standards. By contracting with sites to include non-standard...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5134
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 05:26:51 +0000, John Bokma "Again"? What exactly *is* your point? You seem to be oscillating from "Microsoft doesn't care...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5135
I didn't write that. Neither that. I People *care* what OS they are using. Hence, even if there is a standard...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5136
I'd be VERY surprised if IBM predicted that there would be only 5 COMPUTERS in *2000* - perhaps you mean 5 *manufacturers* of...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5137
Rhino Oh dear, no. Not quite. There were, going back decades, machines that used punched cards, relays, stepper wheels, and punched cards. It was thatthat was the foundation of IBM's...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5138
Rhino It was a long time ago (1940s?), or perhaps about the time when the IBM 701...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5139
I was going to sit this one out, as being obvious flame-bait, but Jeroen's post appears to be reasonable, and yet so utterly wrong that it needs to be responded to. On Sat...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ berkeleyunix 5140
What you call "clever marketing" the DOJ calls "monopolistic practices". The courts agreed with the DOJ. Having had several large PC manufacturers refuse to sell me a...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5141
If you voluntarily take on a job that includes obligations, and have the right to leave any time you want, you are not any sort of a slave. Microsoft has no family, and doesn't have...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5142
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 11:53:29 -0700, David Schwartz When you are repeating a fact with as much psychological research supporting it as that one, it isn't necessary to justify it, any more than it...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5143
Tor Iver Wilhelmsen Well, I had a Lotus model 26 sports car, made in England. If had an engine, originally made by Ford, that they redesigned a bit. They took off...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5144
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 22:28:02 -0700, David Schwartz Within rather broad limits, you can put any tyre you like on your car, but it is not practical to change your engine...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5145
David Schwartz Rather odd comparison don't you think ? A better comparison would be if Burger King purchases the fries from a factory...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5146
Lbutte Vågsæther Karlsen No, it's dead on. The reason this is a much worse comparison is that...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5147
Good for them - I guess nobody else would want them (I certainly wouldn't want something which hadn't been subjected to the test of a competetive market)! In case you hadn't noticed, there...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5148
This thread is large and complex, and I can't always know exactly what's a reply to what reply to what. So what's said in what part of a thread may carry over to...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ berkeleyunix 5149
So follow the link and read it. I quoted the comment and reply directly to...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ berkeleyunix 5150
Except you treat *every* mention of any crime other than abuse of monopoly power as...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5151
Your sole evidence for this claim is that I once equated "theft" with force. Yes, you are correct...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5152
No matter how many times I quote to you where you specifically do exactly this, you insist you aren't. Yes, you are. You equate metaphorical force with actual...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5153
You have not disproved that. The closest you've come to a disproof is one case where the word "theft" was used (while earlier in the thread, actual physical force had...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5154
I didn't say that *you* discussed force. I said it "was used". At that time, I was responding to a lot of different people about...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5155
Peter T. Breuer snip So what I'm getting here is, that they abused their monopoly power to secure their initial deal...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5156
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:47:43 -0700, T Beck No they didn't. They didn't have a monopoly -- they didn't even...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5157
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 21:47:27 -0700, David Schwartz Neither I, nor you, nor the government of any nation, should care a monkey's toss specifically for Microsoft's success. Microsoft is one special...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5158
No, not at all. It is the gravest act of self-contradiction to maintain that one should be allowed to pursue one's own interest while denying...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5159
On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 16:17:20 -0700, David Schwartz This is perhaps the most ignorant thing I've seen written down by somebody educated...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ berkeleyunix 5160
Not at all. No one is denying anyones right to purssue their own interest. What's being denied is the right to use...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5161
The conclusion that the means were illegal is predicated on the definition of the relevent...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ berkeleyunix 5162
No, I wasn't. The statements I made are true: the government charges you taxes on your property, and in most places restricts the changes you...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5163
Incidentally, the perfectly good rationale for this universal existence of limitations to "doing whatever you want with your property" is known in economics as...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5164
A right is a scope of authority. That is, a sphere within which one's decision is sovereign. That's...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5165
On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 13:52:38 -0700, David Schwartz You keep saying that, as if people could do their word processing and run their financial accounting software on the micro...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5166
Then why were you claiming that a government can infringe on a person's rights if those rights are not codified or even accepted...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5167
I'd say to that that you're confusing a belief with a right. A belief doesn't become a right until society acknowledges it as such and puts measures in...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ berkeleyunix 5168
Not at all. The conclusion that the means were illegal was because *they worked*. If MS didn't have monopoly power, the people they were dealing with...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5169
That is true. A law *must* put a reasonable person on notice of precisely what conduct it prohibits and what it does not. At the "fringes", the...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5170
Yep. You got it. Really? In what way? I think you'll find that in germany at least, Linux *IS* a brand of washing powder...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5171
David Schwartz That's the crux of the problem, isn't it? When you are a virtual monopoly, it is at least...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5172
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 14:22:53 +0000, Not Bill Gates That is not true. The market...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5173
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:35:47 +0000, Not Bill Gates You don't care that innovation in desktop software has been crippled by the actions of the monopoly player Microsoft? In 1988, there were...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5174
How could he resell an OS that "could be developed"? If nobody wants these operating systems, then it doesn't hurt him not to be able to sell them. If people want them, then he could...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5175
It depends upon how different the products are and how easy it is to shop out of your local market. If the products are equally...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5176
Yes, it certainly is. However, it is also Microsoft's right as a seller to refuse discounts to those who also sell competing products. You may not particularly what operating systems your customers...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5177
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 16:36:37 +0200, "Peter T. Breuer" said : It was not a discount. I was being denied the right to buy from any...
