RE: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

2007-12-19 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt


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 From: David Schwartz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 Subject: RE: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use
 
 
 
  Don't be foolish.  Microsoft would have lost the case if they
  had admitted the real reasons for what they did.  It isn't to
  MS's benefit to reveal anything about the real reasons they
  do a thing.
 
 That's true, but that completely undercuts your argument. Giving 
 IE away to get revenue for listing root certificates would have 
 been a perfectly legitimate tactic. It would have had *NOTHING* 
 to do with leveraging their Windows monopoly. If Microsoft had 
 been motivated as you claim, saying so would have been a 
 brilliant trial strategy.
 

Why reveal anything if not needed?

Microsoft has spend a lot of money creating the image that it
is a wise and benevolent software company.  It's only us renegade
intellectual-property-thieving lyenuks users that are out there
throwing mud.  Wise and benevolent software companies give away
software for the good of mankind.  Not for base, grasping greedy
money reasons.

Not to mention as well if they say that, it undercuts the
argument that they deliberately spent money to push Netscape
out of business.  The argument they were making is oh gee,
Netscape crashed, we didn't have anything to do with it

 It was the other side that claimed that Microsoft's IE push was 
 to protect Windows. Microsoft had no counter argument.
  

The real reason MS was there on trial was - da dum - that they were
price-setting the OPERATING SYSTEM prices.  The argument was
that MS was a legal monopoly of operating systems and acting in
an anticompetitive fashion.  Why the trial brought Netscape into the
trial at all is likely that it was a ploy to generate sympathy.

It's still an open and shut case that MS is a monopoly of PC
operating system software.  That's why they are currently regulated
by the EC in Europe.  It's why the trial found them to be a monopoly.
Forcing them to untie the browser from the OS was a remedy that
was dreamed up - but, it really didn't answer the root problem
of removing their dominance in the OS market.  The argument that
somehow the Netscape browser would have evolved into an OS in
the future was always highly speculative and driven by the popular
press repeating the Sun mantra of write once, run anywhere it
was never seriously supported by the industry.

Either way that MS would have responded to the assertion that the
IE push was to protect windows would have fucked them further.  It's
a have you stopped beating your wife question.

If MS claims that IE's push was to protect windows, then they
are just validating the opposition's thesis that a web browser
can make a computer operating system.  If they deny it, then
the opposition says well then them giving away IE is illegal
dumping.

  MS had a large campaign going to misdirect to world.  Initially
  it was to their advantage to get the world to believe that they
  didn't understand the Internet.  In that way, the young Internet
  startup companies would spend their money fighting each other
  rather than uniting against Microsoft.
  
  It's obvious MS knew from the beginning the importance of the
  Internet.  How quickly you forget TCP/IP and Window for Workgroups.
  How quickly you forget the addition of the TCP/IP protocol to the
  DOS/Lanmanager MS client.  Even then, MS was working to deny
  funding to the likes of Trumpet Winsock and suchlike by giving
  away the Shiva TCP/IP client in the IE for Windows 3.1
 
 That is *my* claim. How do you think this disagrees with what I'm saying?
  

Your claim was that MS feared the Internet.  I'm telling you point
blank that is total bullcrap.  MS never feared the Internet, they
planned from day 1 how to make money off of it, and merely regarded
it as one more market to exploit.

 
 The position I dispute: Microsoft pushed IE to get revenue from 
 root keys who pay millions to be listed. This is perfectly legal 
 and legitimate.
 
 My position: Microsoft pushed IE because they saw Java and 
 Netscape as a threat to their Windows monopoly.


Wrong.  MS pushed IE to get money.  Just like every other one of
their products.  MS sees nothing as a threat.  They are far too
arrogant to feel threatened by anyone or anything.  Maybe once,
a couple decades ago, when they were small and weak - then yes,
maybe they felt fear.  But not within the memory of just about
everyone working there now.  And when they were small and limp,
(ie: micro-and-soft) the only one who really felt fear was Bill
Gates - since it was mostly his personal money on the line, and
if they went down, he would have suffered the most.

Ted

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Re: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

2007-12-19 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 11:07:46PM -0800, David Schwartz wrote:

 
  MS dumped a pile of money into development of IE7 because it gets a
  pile of money in return from the root certificate authorities.  Just
  like MS dumps a pile of money into development of operating systems
  because they get a pile of money in return from the PC companies
  that sell PC's with Windows preloaded.  All of this rubbish about
  MS positioning IE so they can take over the Internet (ie: html and
  browser standards) is a pile of nonsense, it is nothing more than
  smokescreen mostly from Microsoft, designed to keep customers from
  understanding how they -really- make money.
 
  Ted
 
 This is getting really tiring. Do you have such much as a shred of evidence
 to support this? Yes or no. If you have no evidence, go away. If you have
 evidence, present it.
 

Just because there is no evidence for a conspiracy doesn't mean it's
not real. As someone else pointed out, they believe OJ did it (as do I
and many others) yet there is no (or little) evidence he did it.

To support Ted's thesis, I'd point out that when the DOJ v MS came to
court the browser war was moot, MS had already won. Yet the media
concentrated on this aspect of the trial, but if you read Jacksons's
findings of fact, it was the general anti-competitive behaviour of MS
that Jackson dwelt on, not just browsers, which is why he recommended
they be broken up.

Why did the media report it like so? Because MS spin doctors were
telling the journalists that this was what it was all about. 

Journalists are lazy, incompetent and technically inept, just like
most people, and they couldn't be bothered to pick their way through
the findings of fact and understand why MS was presenting this as
browser wars rather than as their sustained anti-competitive,
monopoly abusing behaviour.

It wouldn't surprise me one iota if this smokescreen was to cover up
their scamming millions from the root certificate authorities amongst
many other abuses.


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Re: amd64 NVIDIA support in FreeBSD 7

2007-12-19 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Sam Fourman Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 Then you have not understood anything at all.  The ball is not in
 nVidia's camp.
 I understand what has to be done, I just don't see why Nvidia can not
 donate the code (and 50% of the time) to the FreeBSD code base
 to make the amd64 Driver happen.

They do not have the expertise required to implement those features.
Those (very few) who do are busy with other things and / or not
interested.

 I think a FreeBSD bounty Program (if there even is such a thing) is a
 Great idea. I can think of a bunch of things I would support

 1 amd64 Nvidia support
 2 better Wine support for FreeBSD, like amd64 support
 3 a evdev driver for xorg (so all the buttons on my mx1000 mouse work)

 just to name a few.

It all comes back to what I said the last time this issue came up on the
lists: there is not sufficient interest in these features, with the
definition of sufficient interest being that someone is interested
enough to either learn the necessary skills and write the code, or put
enough money on the table to hire someone who already has those skills.

These features will be implemented as soon as, and not earlier than,
there is sufficient interest in them, according to the definition above.

DES
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RE: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

2007-12-19 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt


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 Subject: RE: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use



  MS dumped a pile of money into development of IE7 because it gets a
  pile of money in return from the root certificate authorities.  Just
  like MS dumps a pile of money into development of operating systems
  because they get a pile of money in return from the PC companies
  that sell PC's with Windows preloaded.  All of this rubbish about
  MS positioning IE so they can take over the Internet (ie: html and
  browser standards) is a pile of nonsense, it is nothing more than
  smokescreen mostly from Microsoft, designed to keep customers from
  understanding how they -really- make money.

  Ted

 This is getting really tiring. Do you have such much as a shred
 of evidence
 to support this? Yes or no. If you have no evidence, go away. If you have
 evidence, present it.


David, this is getting really tiring. Do you have such much as a shred
of evidence to support your assertion that Microsoft was really
afraid of anything?  Yes or no. If you have no evidence, go away. If you
have
evidence, present it.

Ted

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RE: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

2007-12-19 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt


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  I will act as an arbiter for a minute here, can I?
  The support for your position comes in bulk from historical data. Ted
  holds that the whole Netscape ordeal was manipulated to intentionally
  put Microsoft into vulnerable position in that respect, so as to divert
  attention of the court from other, far more important issues. I cannot
  judge how right this statement is, but I would thus say you are relying
  too much on those records being TRUE (a keyword here, means the kind of
  scientific truthfulness Feynman was lecturing about).

 This is a better statement of what's wrong with Ted's position
 than I could
 ever make, and I thank you.


Except that I said nothing about some vast mythical conspiracy

But, continue.  It's facinating.

 Like any other conspiracy theory, you must interpret all the
 historical data
 according to the rules of the conspiracy. When some off-hand
 remark supports
 the conspiracy, it supports the conspiracy. When clear, documented
 statements conflict with the conspiracy, it is evidence of the
 conspiracy's
 effectiveness.

 If recourse to the historical record is off-limits, all that is left is
 speculation.


The historical record, like any record, is a mixture of truth and
falsehood.

 If we accept, as Ted does, that we can't trust any documentation
 to reflect
 any truth at all,

I never said that.

 we will end up concluding whatever position we started
 with. Anything that conflicts is just evidence of how well the truth we
 search for was covered up.

 Ted can point to *no* historical evidence or evidence of any kind
 to support
 his claim that this revenue stream was a recognized at the time
 he claims it
 was

Except I don't do that.

 or that it ever motivated anyone to do anything. He can argue that it
 should have and that it would be reasonable for it to have.

 The biggest counter-argument -- if Microsoft had a legitimate claim like
 this, they surely would have raised it in court when they faced the
 equivalent of a corporate death penalty.

Microsoft never faced the equivalent of a corporate death penalty.

How much do you know about anti-trust law?  Apparently nothing.

Anti-trust trials are not designed to kill the offending corporation.
Even the most famous recent one - the breakup of the Bell system - did
not have as it's goal the killing of Bell Telephone.

The trials are intended to correct an abnormal market.  An abnormal
market is one in which a monopoly has gotten all market share worth
getting.  Note that it isn't important if that happened as a result
of all customers choosing the company's products voluntarly or if
the company engineered it.

The fundamental assumption is that a monopoly hurts consumers because
the lack of competition means that according to the capitalist system,
consumers will be overcharged without competition in a market.  Overcharging
hurts consumers.  The anti-trust remedy is to break the monopoly up or
cause it to divest.  It is not to put it out of business.

killing Microsoft was never a goal of the anti-trust trial.  The
problem though is when it came to brass-tacks: the construction of
a remedy - the judge realized that making Microsoft divest the
applications division - ie: Microsoft Office - would not correct the
operating system monopoly.  Conversely, divesting the operating system
division would not correct the office applications monopoly.  In
other words, divestiture did not appear to be any kind of a usable
remedy.  As a result the judgement was to force MS to open it's
standards, ie: make it more transparent how the Windows internals
work.

That goal was largely accomplished.  However, what wasn't forseen
by the judge (understandable since the judge was an idiot) was that
MS would go ahead and open the standards, then start waving the banner
of intellectual property infringement about.

That is why today the SAMBA project won't let anyone work on the
samba code who has seen the Microsoft networking code.  The MS networking
code is freely available from Microsoft - you just sign a form
with them and you get it.  Then you will know all about how the SMB
implementation on Windows works.  If your a commercial software vendor
this works fine since your distributing binaries - and Microsoft cannot
show those compiled binaries to a judge and claim copyright or patent
infringement.  But if your distributing an open source implementation of
the SMB networking your screwed because Microsoft can see your code,
and they can take your code and their code to a judge, show the judge
the signed form you signed to get their code, and claim that your
infringing on their intellectual property.

So in short, 

RE: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

2007-12-19 Thread David Schwartz
 
 The real reason MS was there on trial was - da dum - that they were
 price-setting the OPERATING SYSTEM prices.  The argument was
 that MS was a legal monopoly of operating systems and acting in
 an anticompetitive fashion.  Why the trial brought Netscape into the
 trial at all is likely that it was a ploy to generate sympathy.

That's funny because every source I have says that the Microsoft trial started 
because Microsoft was accused of leveraging its Windows monopoly to win the 
browser war. I could provide at least a dozen cites about this, including 
quotes from the lawyer who convinced the DOJ to bring the suit. But I know 
there's no point, because you'll say that even though he said X, that doesn't 
prove that X is really why he did it.

I'll bet you don't have one shred of evidence to support the claim that the 
trial wasn't primarily motivated by this alleged use of leverage.
 
 It's still an open and shut case that MS is a monopoly of PC
 operating system software.  That's why they are currently regulated
 by the EC in Europe.  It's why the trial found them to be a monopoly.
 Forcing them to untie the browser from the OS was a remedy that
 was dreamed up - but, it really didn't answer the root problem
 of removing their dominance in the OS market.

Why is that a problem exactly?

 Either way that MS would have responded to the assertion that the
 IE push was to protect windows would have fucked them further.  It's
 a have you stopped beating your wife question.

Please explain how responding we gave IE away so we can charge for key 
inclusion would have harmed Microsoft. This seems like a perfectly legitimate 
give away the razor and sell the blades approach. It provides an explanation 
other than protecting Windows, which is exactly what Microsoft would have 
watned.
 
 If MS claims that IE's push was to protect windows, then they
 are just validating the opposition's thesis that a web browser
 can make a computer operating system.  If they deny it, then
 the opposition says well then them giving away IE is illegal
 dumping.

This is a nonsensical argument. Selling a razor for less than cost to make 
money on the blades or a printer for less than cost to make money on ink is 
perfectly legitimate. Any argument that avoided a reference to their Windows 
monopoly would have been a huge plus for MS. They raised no such argument.

You can argue that this could be because the secret was too valuable to risk, 
but you can't argue that it wouldn't have helped MS.
 
  The position I dispute: Microsoft pushed IE to get revenue from 
  root keys who pay millions to be listed. This is perfectly legal 
  and legitimate.
  
  My position: Microsoft pushed IE because they saw Java and 
  Netscape as a threat to their Windows monopoly.
 
 Wrong.  MS pushed IE to get money.

Evidence? Oh right, you don't have any. (Although, of course, as stated this 
claim is true. The question is by what mechanism this would make money, and 
there's no evidence at all to support Ted's view.)

It is amazing that you tie such a simple issue into such a crazy conspiracy 
theory. There is simply no evidence whatsoever that anyone recognized the 
revenue stream from root key inclusion during the browser wars. If this is 
true, why can't Ted find a single mention of it?!

Ted is arguing not just that someone recognized this but that it actually 
motivated Microsoft. This despite no evidence from any source.

DS


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RE: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

2007-12-19 Thread David Schwartz

 David, this is getting really tiring. Do you have such much as a shred
 of evidence to support your assertion that Microsoft was really
 afraid of anything?  Yes or no. If you have no evidence, go away. If you
 have
 evidence, present it.

 Ted

Nothing would satisfy you except perhaps a video tape of Bill Gates being
nervous.

When we talk about a corporation being motivated by fear, we know that a
corporation is not a human being and has no feelings. It can't actually be
afraid of anything.

However, tons of evidence from that time period suggests that Microsoft
feared that the Internet could pose a threat to its Windows monopoly in
various ways. Tons and tons of evidence supported this view, and the
antitrust trial (which Microsoft lost) was about precisely this.

I don't deny that Microsoft later found ways to profit from IE. I don't even
deny that these ways may have motivated later actions. However, there is no
evidence whatsoever that Microsoft saw root key inclusion as a way to profit
from IE during the browser wars. There is simply not one shred of evidence
to support this view.

If Ted had any, he'd present it.

I don't deny that it's possible. I don't deny that had Microsoft thought of
that at the time, it likely would have motivated them. I simply deny that
Microsoft thought of it at the time.

This would require a kind of foresight on Gates' part that he simply didn't
have.

It really doesn't matter whether Bill Gates genuinely feared that the
Internet could topple his OS monopoly by making OS unimportant or if he was
just covering his bases. The fact is, he acted to leverage his Windows
monopoly to kill IE and the only reason with any evidence at all to support
it was that it is that this was to protect Windows.

You may find some evidence to suggest that Microsoft thought that the
browser might be a way to control other markets. For example, if your
browser defaults to your portal, then your book selling site might have an
advantage over a competitor's. It's quite possible that this also motivated
Microsoft to think winning the browser wars was important.

There is just no evidence that root key issues had any role in the browser
wars. Ted insists they did against all evidence.

DS


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RE: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

2007-12-19 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt


 -Original Message-
 From: David Schwartz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 8:11 AM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Cc: Rob; FreeBSD Chat; Andrew Falanga
 Subject: RE: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use
 
 
  
  The real reason MS was there on trial was - da dum - that they were
  price-setting the OPERATING SYSTEM prices.  The argument was
  that MS was a legal monopoly of operating systems and acting in
  an anticompetitive fashion.  Why the trial brought Netscape into the
  trial at all is likely that it was a ploy to generate sympathy.
 
 That's funny because every source I have says that the Microsoft 
 trial started because Microsoft was accused of leveraging its 
 Windows monopoly to win the browser war. I could provide at least 
 a dozen cites about this, including quotes from the lawyer who 
 convinced the DOJ to bring the suit. But I know there's no point, 
 because you'll say that even though he said X, that doesn't prove 
 that X is really why he did it.
 
 I'll bet you don't have one shred of evidence to support the 
 claim that the trial wasn't primarily motivated by this alleged 
 use of leverage.


http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f3800/msjudgex.htm

...II  The Relevant Market
Currently there are no products, nor are there likely to be any in the near 
future, that a significant percentage of consumers world-wide could substitute 
for Intel-compatible PC OPERATING SYSTEMS...
...Therefore, in determining the level of Microsoft's market power, the 
relevant market is the licensing of all Intel-compatible PC OPERATING 
SYSTEMS...
...Section 412...Most harmful of all is the message that Microsoft's actions 
have conveyed to every enterprise with the potential to innovate in the 
computer industry. Through its conduct toward Netscape, IBM, Compaq, Intel, and 
others, Microsoft has demonstrated that it will use its prodigious market power 
and immense profits to harm any firm that insists on pursuing initiatives that 
could intensify competition against one of Microsoft's CORE PRODUCTS

Now, was there a big hue and cry in the finding of fact concerning browsers?
Certainly.  However, the web browser was never a Microsoft core product.  I
will also point out that the fundamental argument in the fact finding was that
Netscape was charging and Microsoft started giving away a web browser for
free, forcing Netscape to give theirs away for free - all of this completely
ignores that the Netscape code was originally free code, copied from
NCSA, and that there were other free web browsers besides Netscape and
IE available a the time.  In other words, the court was bashing Microsoft
for giving away a browser for free to compete against another company that
simply took free open source browser AND server code and started charging money
for it.

That is why the fact finding DID NOT state that the most harmful was that
MS misused the so-called browser market.  The entire MS is bad because
they pushed Netscape out of business argument only makes sense in the
context of the times - when a lot of people like you were running around
claiming a web browser was an operating system.  The original market was
NOT defined as a browser market - it was defined as an OPERATING SYSTEM
market - and the most harmful actions of Microsoft to the market concerned
their CORE PRODUCTS - which at the time were PC OPERATING SYSTEMS.

Thomas Penfield Jackson knew at the time that a finding of fact that
MS was a monopoly in the BROWSER market would not hold up.  So he carefully
penned a finding that WOULD hold up - one that's foundations rested on
anticompetitive behavior in the OPERATING SYSTEM market - with a lot of
Netscape web browser window dressing merely as evidence that MS was
a nasty company.

The fact of the matter is that the succeeding judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly
is ignorant of how the computer market works, and is merely a mouthpiece
for conservatives.  She didn't reverse the findings of fact since she
did not have the knowledge of how the market works to understand them.
Instead she just issued a remedy that did practically nothing.
  
  It's still an open and shut case that MS is a monopoly of PC
  operating system software.  That's why they are currently regulated
  by the EC in Europe.  It's why the trial found them to be a monopoly.
  Forcing them to untie the browser from the OS was a remedy that
  was dreamed up - but, it really didn't answer the root problem
  of removing their dominance in the OS market.
 
 Why is that a problem exactly?
 

You know, at this point I'm just going to end this.  If you still don't
understand why a single computer operating system being the dominant
PC operating system is a problem, you are a lost cause, and frankly,
your statement has almost certainly killed your credibility with anyone
running an operating system other than Windows.

Ted

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RE: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

2007-12-19 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt


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 When we talk about a corporation being motivated by fear, we know that a
 corporation is not a human being and has no feelings. It can't actually be
 afraid of anything.

 However, tons of evidence from that time period suggests that Microsoft
 feared

Oh brother.


 This would require a kind of foresight on Gates' part that he
 simply didn't
 have.

 It really doesn't matter whether Bill Gates genuinely feared that the
 Internet

First it was Microsoft feared  Now it's Bill Gates feared

 could topple his OS monopoly by making OS unimportant or
 if he was
 just covering his bases. The fact is, he acted to leverage his Windows
 monopoly to kill IE

Now your just so carried away that you aren't even paying attention
to what your writing.  leverage windows to kill IE?


 You may find some evidence to suggest that Microsoft thought that the
 browser might be a way to control other markets. For example, if your
 browser defaults to your portal, then your book selling site might have an
 advantage over a competitor's. It's quite possible that this also
 motivated
 Microsoft to think winning the browser wars was important.

 There is just no evidence that root key issues had any role in the browser
 wars. Ted insists they did against all evidence.


The root key issue that your so hung up on was a single example cited
by me in a response to Chuck Robey's statement that Microsoft is giving
away IE.  Go back and re-read it.  Notice that I DID NOT say in that post
that this was the ONLY way that Microsoft makes money of IE.  It is you
that has somehow jumped to the conclusion that I was asserting this is
the ONLY way Microsoft makes money off IE.  There's plenty other ways.

Ted

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RE: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

2007-12-19 Thread David Schwartz

  This would require a kind of foresight on Gates' part that he
  simply didn't
  have.
 
  It really doesn't matter whether Bill Gates genuinely feared that the
  Internet

 First it was Microsoft feared  Now it's Bill Gates feared

Since I made it precisely clear what I mean in both cases, what exactly is
your problem? Obviously, a company can't actually feel fear.

  could topple his OS monopoly by making OS unimportant or
  if he was
  just covering his bases. The fact is, he acted to leverage his Windows
  monopoly to kill IE

 Now your just so carried away that you aren't even paying attention
 to what your writing.  leverage windows to kill IE?

I've tried to debate with you in good faith, but now you've proven you're
just an asshole. I noticed that you put your instead of you're. Perhaps
I should ignore your argument because of it.

 The root key issue that your so hung up on was a single example cited

Because your claim on that issue is false. You made a false claim, I pointed
out that it was false. The only reason I am so hung up on it is because
you continue to defend it despite the fact that there's not one shred of
evidence to support it.

You added a bit of conspiracy hypothesis to your argument, you got called on
it, and now you're pissed.

 by me in a response to Chuck Robey's statement that Microsoft is giving
 away IE.  Go back and re-read it.  Notice that I DID NOT say in that post
 that this was the ONLY way that Microsoft makes money of IE.  It is you
 that has somehow jumped to the conclusion that I was asserting this is
 the ONLY way Microsoft makes money off IE.  There's plenty other ways.

Nice try at rewriting history. Here's your original claim:

 Those payments are gigantic.  Imagine for a second if Verisign
 told Microsoft to kiss off, they were no longer going to pay
 Microsoft for renting space in the IE root certificate store.
 Microsoft would simply issue a root certificate revoke in Windows
 Updates for the Verisign public key, and a few weeks later
 millions of users would start getting messages that their browser
 was no longer recognizing the SSL certificate from ebay, paypal,
 Wells Fargo, etc. etc.

 If by some miracle those millions of users were to manually add
 those CA public keys into their root stores, Microsoft could merely
 continue to periodically issue revokements. ;-)

 So now you maybe understand why Microsoft chose to crush Netscape,
 and why they hand out IE like candy?

You specifically said that root key revenue was one of the motivations for
Microsoft's decision to crush Netscape and hand out IE like candy. You
never said it was the only reason but you did say it was a significant
reason.

You have still have not provided one shred of evidence to support this
claim.

In any event, there's no point in trying to debate someone whose mind is
closed and is incapable of arguing in good faith.

Again, you have yet to present even the tiniest shred of evidence that
possible root certificate revenue motivated Microsoft to give away IE or
crush Netscape. That remains your personal conspiracy theory, and when it is
challenged, you react like all conpsiracy theorists do.

DS


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Re: Live CD

2007-12-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Benjamin Adams wrote:
 I want to create my own live cd.  I'm looking for a good tutorial. 
 Live cd will be off version 7.0 of FreeBSD.

http://www.freesbie.org/

I've only made 6.2 ones but I don't see why 7.0 wouldn't work.

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