On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 12:11 -0700, m0gely wrote:
> Michael Robinson wrote:
> >>> The government could step in...
> >
> > I've heard this argument before and I'm not buying it. The government
> > which recognizes copyright could step in and retroactively change the
> > rules.
>
> You don't buy
MJang wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 01:49 -0700, Michael Robinson wrote:
>> On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 00:26 -0700, m0gely wrote:
>>> Michael Robinson wrote:
>>>
Microsoft has abandoned the dos/Windows 3.x combo, Windows 95 all
versions, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows NT all versions,
>>
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Michael Robinson
wrote:
> Copyright is not supposed to protect a company from competition forever.
> Microsoft is a monopoly because noone is allowed to work from any of
> it's old OS'es. Efforts to replicate functionality and achieve driver
> compatability are t
Michael Robinson wrote:
>>> The government could step in...
>
> I've heard this argument before and I'm not buying it. The government
> which recognizes copyright could step in and retroactively change the
> rules.
You don't buy it? What planet are you from? Wanna know a big reason why
nvidia
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 01:49 -0700, Michael Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 00:26 -0700, m0gely wrote:
> > Michael Robinson wrote:
> >
> > > Microsoft has abandoned the dos/Windows 3.x combo, Windows 95 all
> > > versions, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows NT all versions,
> > > Windows 2
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
> No mail reports Sunday morning. Both reports yesterday morning. No reports
> this morning, ...
Update: both invocations of /etc/cron.daily/1pflogsumm ran last night. So
did the 'set' report with the same 0 completion code.
There is no pattern I
Except then software companies could only charge their consumers *once*
rather then charging them over and over again for the various upgrades.
If win98 was open-sourced then people would be more likely to keep their
older computer around and use the open-source updates to keep their
system run
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 00:26 -0700, m0gely wrote:
> Michael Robinson wrote:
>
> > Microsoft has abandoned the dos/Windows 3.x combo, Windows 95 all
> > versions, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows NT all versions,
> > Windows 2000, and Windows Millenium.
>
> Windows 2000 (NT5) has over a year of
Michael Robinson wrote:
> Microsoft has abandoned the dos/Windows 3.x combo, Windows 95 all
> versions, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows NT all versions,
> Windows 2000, and Windows Millenium.
Windows 2000 (NT5) has over a year of support left, hardly abandoned. An
OS is made up of many techn
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Michael Robinson
wrote:
> A bit of an aside, when I bought a usb sound card from usbgear.com
> it was advertised as being Windows 98SE compatible. It wasn't. I
> was told tough when I brought this up and it was suggested that I
> should complain to Microsoft. I
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