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On Saturday 20 March 2004 03:26, Erylon Hines wrote:
To make matters worse, the OEM's don't include a real OS disk
with their machines. The crippled crap disk included is a
recovery disk which formats the HD and returns the machine to the
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On Saturday 20 March 2004 05:24 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
Even better, or worse, is that my daughter's employer has just bought
her a new box with XP. She doesn't even get a recovery disk. She
has to take it back to the vendor if it's needed. We
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On Saturday 20 March 2004 10:31, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
I notice that some brands already provide this kind of feature.
Acer is one, the give you a hdd with a hidden D drive containing
the original C image, and a recovery button on the CPU casing,
On Saturday 20 March 2004 06:12 am, Frank Bax wrote:
At 10:26 PM 3/19/04, Erylon Hines wrote:
To make matters worse, the OEM's don't include a real OS disk with their
machines. The crippled crap disk included is a recovery disk which
formats the HD and returns the machine to the factory
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On Thursday 18 March 2004 22:55, robin wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
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On Thursday 18 March 2004 21:30, Josenildo Marques wrote:
In my share of the world they advertising they're selling any
software
Here in Turkey, Windows costs around $2 (Mandrake costs a bit more,
because there are more CDs). To quote a local comedy show, Please don't
use the word 'pirate'. We are art distributors.
Here that OS would cost around US$3.
But, you know what, I think it's still too expensive.
:-)
I once
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On Friday 19 March 2004 05:45 pm, anton wrote:
I once read (possibly even on a mandrake list) that M$s biggest asset
was that MOST of the world's programmers and sysadmins and certain
almost all of the world's joe bloggs' are only comfortable
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 19:07:03 +0700
Fajar Priyanto disseminated the following:
So, I think in some degree, MS is letting piracy to happen, because they know
it is their way to dose the computer users to keep using their product thus
maintaining its popularity.
Bingo.
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JoeHill
Registered
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On Friday 19 March 2004 07:30 pm, JoeHill wrote:
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 19:07:03 +0700
Fajar Priyanto disseminated the following:
So, I think in some degree, MS is letting piracy to happen, because they
know it is their way to dose the computer
19/03/2004 19:07 Fajar Priyanto [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
So, I think in some degree, MS is letting piracy to happen, because they know
it is their way to dose the computer users to keep using their product thus
maintaining its popularity.
Just like drug dealer.First,they give the drug free.Once you
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 20:01:03 +0700
Hasta Purnama disseminated the following:
So, I think in some degree, MS is letting piracy to happen, because they
know
it is their way to dose the computer users to keep using their product thus
maintaining its popularity.
Just like drug
On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 14:30, JoeHill wrote:
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 19:07:03 +0700
Fajar Priyanto disseminated the following:
So, I think in some degree, MS is letting piracy to happen, because they know
it is their way to dose the computer users to keep using their product thus
On Friday 19 March 2004 03:17 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
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On Friday 19 March 2004 02:27, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
Anne:
I just checked CompUSA prices (given as Full/Upgrade in USD):
XP Pro: $299.99/$159.99*
XP Home: $199.99/$99.99
2000 Pro:
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On Friday 19 March 2004 15:07, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
Anne:
The $50 figure was probably based on a weighted average of retail
and OEM sales. After all, most new PC's come with Windows preloaded
in them. -- cmg
You mean they pretend that those
On Friday 19 March 2004 14:47, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
On Friday 19 March 2004 07:30 pm, JoeHill wrote:
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 19:07:03 +0700
Fajar Priyanto disseminated the following:
So, I think in some degree, MS is letting piracy to happen, because
they know it is their way to dose the
On Friday 19 March 2004 08:17 am, Paul wrote:
it's been said before, MS is happy to let windows get pirated,
but come down heavy on office piracy.
Paul M
I haven't used Windoze for quite some time, don't even have it
installed. BUT, back when I was disallusioned into runnin the
latest,
On Friday 19 March 2004 10:21 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
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On Friday 19 March 2004 15:07, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
Anne:
The $50 figure was probably based on a weighted average of retail
and OEM sales. After all, most new PC's come with Windows
On Friday 19 March 2004 05:42 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
Anne:
The OEM price that you are quoting is the price for the OEM version, but
that is far more than the Dell's and HP's are paying. Back during the days
of the MS trial and subsequent settlement, it came out that major OEM's
were
Erylon Hines wrote:
To make matters worse, the OEM's don't include a real OS disk with
their
machines. The crippled crap disk included is a recovery disk which formats
the HD and returns the machine to the factory mode. Truly useless, but the
end users pay anyway.
e.
Not always,
I can
...and knowing the Justice System, that'll about do it :-/
http://www.crn.com/Sections/BreakingNews/breakingnews.asp?ArticleID=48713
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JoeHill
Registered Linux user #282046
Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org
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15:13:33 up 7 days, 5:43, Mandrake Linux release 9.2
On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 07:14, JoeHill wrote:
...and knowing the Justice System, that'll about do it :-/
http://www.crn.com/Sections/BreakingNews/breakingnews.asp?ArticleID=48713
Nothing will ever change until Microsoft is truly taken down.
Same Old Story since 1992.
stephen kuhn - owner
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On Thursday 18 March 2004 20:14, JoeHill wrote:
...and knowing the Justice System, that'll about do it :-/
http://www.crn.com/Sections/BreakingNews/breakingnews.asp?ArticleID
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Apart from anything else, I'd like to know where he shops. M$
On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 22:38, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 07:14, JoeHill wrote:
...and knowing the Justice System, that'll about do it :-/
http://www.crn.com/Sections/BreakingNews/breakingnews.asp?ArticleID=48713
Nothing will ever change until Microsoft is truly taken down.
On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 08:00, Paul wrote:
Since the talks with the EU have broken down should be interesting news
on Monday Wednesday next week.
Paul M
Nothings going to change Microsoft. They're going to constantly try to
dictate the software world, dominate the OS world, bullshit the
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 23:00:25 +0200
Paul disseminated the following:
Since the talks with the EU have broken down
Really? Monti didn't bow down to Stevie Ballmer?
...off to googlenews!
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Registered Linux user #282046
Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org
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On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 23:22, JoeHill wrote:
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 23:00:25 +0200
Paul disseminated the following:
Since the talks with the EU have broken down
Really? Monti didn't bow down to Stevie Ballmer?
...off to googlenews!
See also http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3523232.stm
On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 17:51, Anne Wilson wrote:
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On Thursday 18 March 2004 20:14, JoeHill wrote:
...and knowing the Justice System, that'll about do it :-/
http://www.crn.com/Sections/BreakingNews/breakingnews.asp?ArticleID
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Apart
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On Thursday 18 March 2004 21:30, Josenildo Marques wrote:
In my share of the world they advertising they're selling any
software for a reasonable price, payable in 10 months.
Assuming that it's genuine software, I presume that the 'reasonable
On Thursday 18 March 2004 21:22, JoeHill wrote:
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 23:00:25 +0200
Paul disseminated the following:
Since the talks with the EU have broken down
Really? Monti didn't bow down to Stevie Ballmer?
...off to googlenews!
Oh, good grief. what blue-eyed Canucks, Americans
Anne Wilson wrote:
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On Thursday 18 March 2004 21:30, Josenildo Marques wrote:
In my share of the world they advertising they're selling any
software for a reasonable price, payable in 10 months.
Assuming that it's genuine software, I presume that the
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Kaj Haulrich disseminated the following:
Before wednesday, you'll find the headlines going like this :
The EU Commission and Microsoft settles : Microsoft allows certain
non-Microsoft software into consumer PC's. Microsoft admits
misconduct and pays a
Anne Wilson wrote:
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On Thursday 18 March 2004 20:14, JoeHill wrote:
...and knowing the Justice System, that'll about do it :-/
http://www.crn.com/Sections/BreakingNews/breakingnews.asp?ArticleID
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Apart from anything else, I'd like to know
On Thursday 18 March 2004 03:51 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
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On Thursday 18 March 2004 20:14, JoeHill wrote:
...and knowing the Justice System, that'll about do it :-/
http://www.crn.com/Sections/BreakingNews/breakingnews.asp?ArticleID
=48713
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