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I find it amazing two people with not a single post referencing hardware, however when they are given an off topic subject they know nothing about, you can't shut them up.

Some people bitch, and do nothing. If anything, your the two with all the answers. re-read your posts...then STFU once again. Maybe you and the expert on one handed typing could get together and have a circle jerk.

POOF! your Bill Gates....whats the first thing your going to do? You haven't a clue do you? please don't start with the first thing is to give your money away and give away windows..... Your kidding yourself. Oh whats that?, dont make assumptions about what your motives would be......... shoe sux when its on the other foot?

your a well rounded bigot aren't you?

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As easily as you can grasp the the difference between "clueless" and "knowing something".

Not if you pay close attention.

It happens all the time in a free market.

To someone who believes in a rule-based society.

Clearly you believe that businesses should not have to play by rules or the rules should not be enforced by the government because the government can't do anything right.

Sounds like a Libertarian zealot to me.

It's a wild guess. I think the final outcome to date was wrong. The idea that I hated it exists only in your imagination. The appellate court judges had plenty of insight and not all of the district court's judgment was correct (in my opinion).

Speaking of nonsense. That was part of the proposed remedy, not part of the trial, and that was done by the prosecution.

You certainly contrive a lot of nonsense while defending Microsoft.

Some silly notion about software being too complicated for anyone to tell the difference between an operating system and applications.

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Actually they succeeded in laming the browser from working, but could not remove all the files associated and still have the OS work as advertised.

much of version 1 of dos was purchased from someone else, not developed at microsoft. while not binary compatible with 8080-based CP/M it did have a similar functional structure. and was probably atleast partially compatible with CP/M-86 an 8086 version of CP/M that never really took off.

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Ya know, all this really isn't about Bill Gates or Microsoft Per Se. It's about the greed factor and the power factor and the control factor. The desire for absolute power and to corrupt absolutely . The sort of thing that rears its ugly head virtually every single day of our lives. Like Enron, Hollinger international and on and on.

With Microsoft, like many others it *is* about greed and power.

With the oil industry, it *is* about greed and power. For example, I live in the north-eastern part of this north American continent. In the summertime, the price of gas goes sky-high because of the demand and heating oil drops and in the wintertime the price of heating fuel goes sky-high because of demand and gas drops. The immediate response or belief drilled into the general public is that there is a shortage of oil. There is NOT. There is plenty of oil. I know, because where I live, we are net exporters of oil. The problem is that with the increased demand, nobody is building extra refining capacity. Especially those who *control* the industry. You know, the Exxons, Shell, and so on. It's gotten to the point where these bastards are driving the crap out of a barrel of oil because (get this) they're expecting a friggin' snow storm in the north-east of the continent.

Greed, power and control.

Same with Microsoft. Control (virtually all PCs run Windows of one flavor or other) Greed (absolutely no sane reason to charge the prices they do for the garbage they sell) Power (as someone said earlier, they can get away with

That's what my bitching is about. Its not thinly veiled envy, jealousy or any other petty begrudging. It's being just totally pissed with a system where some people will starve to death or freeze this winter and others will take comfort in the fact that they have "looted everyone else so effectively" that it is impossible to spend the wealth in several lifetimes.

Do I have the answers like some of you *think* you do?? No. However, that doesn't mean I can't vent about it if I desire.

Contrary to your belief, It is my business if I say or think it is. Don't you realize that, as a citizen, you have no say in

When you wear out the blinders you're currently wearing, gimme a call. I got another pair I can sell you.

Your previous post proves otherwise.

If you don't know any more about software than the judge does then it might appear that way.

Non sequitur. It is, by definition, not a free market when courts and judges dictate product content. The seller is not able to offer the product he otherwise would and the buyer has that choice removed from consideration. Rather than 'free' the market is contorted to conform to the court's opinion of what it 'should be'.

Hitler also believed in "a rule-based society."

The question is, and always has been, who should make the rules and what should the rules be? But to say rules are right simply because they exist is a fool's argument.

You clearly haven't a clue.

Since it's an invention of your own making it'll sound like whatever you want.

You just proved it wasn't a 'wild guess', as I had already explained.

There's 'justice' for you: a remedy that springeth forth from no "part of the trial" and the court's opinion "done by the prosecution."

Your opening was right on; you're speaking nonsense.

Declining to discuss the case with you is not a defense of anyone.

Not even remotely close and I'm not going to go through it again.

So, why are you commenting?? Aaaah, just another trolling A**hole looking for an argument.

Bigot?? You never learned to read *and* understand at the same time, is that correct??

Yeah, and as of next year you'll only be able to buy Ladas. :-) What a bunch of horse petunias.

That's one way of looking at it I suppose. Not very insightful, but a way.

Your arguments are truly those of a naive person. You'll change your mind after you've been bitten on the ass a few times.

The great American, and British public, accept that power and control. Between us all we could bankrupt any corporation we wanted to. All we have to do is band together and boycott them and their goods, and down they go. How could that be done ?. bw..OJ

Like Republicans here in the United States. Some people wonder why Republicans are becoming the porkbarrel spending party. Well DUH, it's because Republicans control how the money is spent. Democrats have turned into deficit hawks because now taxpayer money goes to Republican interests and constituents. The party in power spends and the minority party complains about it.

That is a lot easier said than done. Many people think Microsoft stifling personal computer growth is okay and would drive another company out of business while they were working very hard to switch operating systems. Living in a country that enforces intellectual-property law, you would need consensus plus a whole lot of effort and money. The rest of the world just pirates the software.

I did, it's enough to knock a buzzard off a s*it wagon at 50 yards.

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Yep. QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System), by Seattle Computer Products (SCP), marketed as 86-DOS. It was a CP/M 'clone', except 16 bit of course, and SCP developed it because Digital Research didn't seem interested enough in an 8086 version of CPM, at least not soon enough for SCP's 8086 computer kit. DR seemed to think that 8 bit processors were just fine and they were satisfied with CP/M sales.

QDOS's 'innovation' was the FAT file system.

Microsoft's fist PC-DOS was essentially 86-DOS, heavily reworked to pass IBM testing (supposedly over 300 bugs fixed), but PC-DOS 2.0 was almost a complete rewrite.

So if one wants to argue about who stole what from who you'd have to point the finger at SCP as Microsoft simply licensed, then purchased outright, an existing product and I don't know how anyone can call that 'stealing'.

IBM's PC was designed fully expecting to use a not yet in existence 16 bit version of CPM but, somehow (plenty of rumors), DR royally pissed them off so IBM turned to MS and the rest is history.

Of course it did. That was the technology of the time.

First version of MS-DOS (86-DOS) might have been call compatible (I don't know) but they were independently developed, one by SCP and the other by DR, and CP/M-86 came after QDOS. Ironically, software developers claimed it was easier to port 8 bit CP/M software to PC-DOS than to CP/M-86.

CP/M-86 would run on an IBM PC, and IBM offered it as an option (first PCs didn't come with anything, software was 'optional'), but DR wanted $495 a copy while PC-DOS was going for $39.95. Which would you get?

Conspiracy buffs and paranoids always call the sane and rational 'naive'.

Super. But unless you can demonstrate your area's exports are enough to power the planet that little factiod means nothing about the state of the world's oil supply.

They haven't built new refineries in a coon's age because they can't get permits as environmentalists have essentially blocked every technologically feasible source of new energy production.

Wouldn't be so bad if you folks up there would ever let them build a bloody pipeline too but, nooooooo. So when it's socked in every other means of transport is cut off and you're stuck with whatever local supplies have been pre stocked. That costs money, pal, and creates shortages.

Since you've got all that excess oil, why don't you lobby the legislature for a refinery permit? hmm?