Re: [newbie] M$ using pirated software
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 23:42:52 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: > careful they also hold the patent on chutzpah ROFL! -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 10:49:04 up 2 days, 15:19, 6 users, load average: 1.44, 1.36, 0.96 +++ "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] M$ using pirated software
On Friday 19 November 2004 11:42 pm, Aron Smith wrote: > On Friday 19 November 2004 10:16 pm, John Layt wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 11:07, Stephen KÃhn wrote: > > > But now, since Ballmer the Bouncing Bimbo has gotten into IP legalaties > > > to fight the GPL/OSS world, they better do something about the > > > skeletons roving around in THEIR own closet... > > > > Heard their latest patent claim? They reckon they invented the boolean > > not equal operator... Somebody dig up Charles Boole and get him down to > > the Patent Office to school that examiner in elementary logic :-) > > > > http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01 > >&p > > =1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220040230959%22.P > >GNR .&OS=DN/20040230959&RS=DN/20040230959 > > > > OK, to be fair, it's a particular implementation of ISNOT, but talk about > > chutzpah! > > careful they also hold the patent on chutzpah > > > John. "Money" is a registered trademark of Microsoft, Incorporated. Chutzpah to them I say! What has microsoft ever given the world... without them the worst that would happen is everybody would use Mac OS until they found Linux and Mac is Unix based now so um nothings wrong with that, so who needs Microsoft? Cheers, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #366862 This message was sent from a Microsoft-Free 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernel 2.6.5; KDE 3.2 configured to look alot like MacOS X). "Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software!" "A Linux Only area ÂHappy bug hunting M$ clan, The time is here to FORGET that M$ Corp ever existed the world does not NEED M$ Corp the world hasÂNO USE for M$ Corp Âit is time to END M$ Corp" -snipped from the signature of Peter Nikolic Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] M$ using pirated software
On Saturday 20 November 2004 01:07, Stephen Kühn wrote: > But now, since Ballmer the Bouncing Bimbo has gotten into IP legalaties > to fight the GPL/OSS world, they better do something about the skeletons > roving around in THEIR own closet... Yep, I always say: Give 'em enough rope and they'll hang themselves;-D -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] M$ using pirated software
On Friday 19 November 2004 10:16 pm, John Layt wrote: > On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 11:07, Stephen Kühn wrote: > > But now, since Ballmer the Bouncing Bimbo has gotten into IP legalaties > > to fight the GPL/OSS world, they better do something about the skeletons > > roving around in THEIR own closet... > > Heard their latest patent claim? They reckon they invented the boolean not > equal operator... Somebody dig up Charles Boole and get him down to the > Patent Office to school that examiner in elementary logic :-) > > http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p >=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220040230959%22.PGNR >.&OS=DN/20040230959&RS=DN/20040230959 > > OK, to be fair, it's a particular implementation of ISNOT, but talk about > chutzpah! careful they also hold the patent on chutzpah > > John. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] M$ using pirated software
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 11:07, Stephen Kühn wrote: > But now, since Ballmer the Bouncing Bimbo has gotten into IP legalaties > to fight the GPL/OSS world, they better do something about the skeletons > roving around in THEIR own closet... Heard their latest patent claim? They reckon they invented the boolean not equal operator... Somebody dig up Charles Boole and get him down to the Patent Office to school that examiner in elementary logic :-) http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220040230959%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20040230959&RS=DN/20040230959 OK, to be fair, it's a particular implementation of ISNOT, but talk about chutzpah! John. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] M$ using pirated software
On Friday 19 November 2004 04:07 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: > On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 09:27, Aron Smith wrote: > > On Friday 19 November 2004 01:49 pm, Miark wrote: > > > http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20041115_135458.html > > > > Oh thats good:-D > > No matter how many times I read it or hear it, I laugh. > Imagine how many other files - graphics files, audio files, even > programs themselves that are "built" into Windows (any version) have > been created (or stolen outright) or compiled with pirated > software...hmmm??? I personally know of situation (in Dallas) where M$ > techies were using "unlicensed" software to do their jobs - FOR M$...and > that wasn't THAT long ago...it is also known that M$ puts it's OWN leaks > out there...and why not? > > But now, since Ballmer the Bouncing Bimbo has gotten into IP legalaties > to fight the GPL/OSS world, they better do something about the skeletons > roving around in THEIR own closet... This may (please..please) be a case of micro$loth bitch slapping themselves :-] 0 > > -- > stephen kuhn > mobile: 0410-728-389 > illawarra and regional new south wales > --- > GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives > 100% Microsoft Free and no viruses > Registered Linux User # 267497 > > Windows: Where do you want to go today? > MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? > Linux: Are you coming or what? > > --- > "Scum," said Crash, his voice low with resigned menace, "you've bought a > leopard, haven't you?" (Soul Music) -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] M$ using pirated software
On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 09:27, Aron Smith wrote: > On Friday 19 November 2004 01:49 pm, Miark wrote: > > http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20041115_135458.html > Oh thats good:-D No matter how many times I read it or hear it, I laugh. Imagine how many other files - graphics files, audio files, even programs themselves that are "built" into Windows (any version) have been created (or stolen outright) or compiled with pirated software...hmmm??? I personally know of situation (in Dallas) where M$ techies were using "unlicensed" software to do their jobs - FOR M$...and that wasn't THAT long ago...it is also known that M$ puts it's OWN leaks out there...and why not? But now, since Ballmer the Bouncing Bimbo has gotten into IP legalaties to fight the GPL/OSS world, they better do something about the skeletons roving around in THEIR own closet... -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free and no viruses Registered Linux User # 267497 Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? --- "Scum," said Crash, his voice low with resigned menace, "you've bought a leopard, haven't you?" (Soul Music) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] M$ using pirated software
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:49:47 -0500 Miark disseminated the following: > This is good for a chuckle: > > http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20041115_135458.html Well, every piece of software they've ever come out with has been 'pirated' to some extent, so why should this come as a surprise? I wonder, though, how their bootlicking lackeys in the BSA will approach this, eh? -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 17:43:08 up 1 day, 22:13, 10 users, load average: 0.15, 0.14, 0.09 +++ "The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people" -- Noam Chomsky Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] M$ using pirated software
On Friday 19 November 2004 01:49 pm, Miark wrote: > http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20041115_135458.html Oh thats good:-D -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] M$ using pirated software
This is good for a chuckle: http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20041115_135458.html Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
