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22nd February 2008, 07:13 AM
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At the risk of repeating myself ... Beware!
In any deal with the Devil ... you will always be the junior partner.
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22nd February 2008, 07:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Dan
At the risk of repeating myself ... Beware!
In any deal with the Devil ... you will always be the junior partner.
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I always use a line from Poirot: "If you put your head in the mouth of a lion don't be surprised if he bites it off" 
BTW. Still out of your coffin? 
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22nd February 2008, 07:20 AM
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Ayup! But fixin to hit the rack right now.
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22nd February 2008, 07:59 AM
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2 years ago linux was hard as hell for me to keep a decent connection. now i can use it like a novice windows user. (though im taking unix at the CC), anyway what im tryin to say is its getting easier for the average user to use linux for webrowsing and email. let alone the other stuff if they wanted to
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22nd February 2008, 01:52 PM
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At best, its just PR
At worst, ITS A TRAP. promise not to sue non commercial developers - so how useful is any code that comes out of this if any major distro or any product that has any commercial application / implication still runs the risk of being sued?
MS's entire business model runs on being able to leverage their Windows monopoly and the ecosystem of applications built on top of that monopoly. If they let anybody write stuff that works with windows as well as stuff written for windows, there goes their monopoly. And thats the last thing they're going to do.
It will be quite a while yet before they go through an IBM style metamorphosis...
To paraphrase Dan's reply / Lock Stock & 2 smoking barrels, "when you dance with the devil, you wait for the music to stop, know what I mean?"
Off topic, but no I don't believe people are going to get wise to Apple anytime soon, at least if they keep making good products that just work (tm). Its easy to overlook the faults of a company if their products are actually good (look at Cisco LOL).
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22nd February 2008, 06:47 PM
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iv had so many problmes with ipods its sick. 3 have failed for no reason. just failed like wtf?
an Mac users ugh thats all i have to say
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22nd February 2008, 07:55 PM
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<bad balmer impression>
sure you can see our code but don't touch
</bad balmer impression>
This is just another ploy to get people to think ms is a good an FLOSS is bad.
I say they can just kiss it 
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22nd February 2008, 09:16 PM
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I'm always a pessimist; I don't think Microsoft plans on giving up information to it's underlying engine, just the design of certain applications. If they did do that, then they would not be out of business very fast.
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22nd February 2008, 10:18 PM
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this shouldnt even be note worthy, and since it is it should be criticized more so publicly. do they think its gonna be like 'hey guys M$ is 'open source' now drop your linux boxs and come back to us now !!!........plz?"and we are all gonna get wet in our panties? i dont think so. vista sux. xp is ok if your in a pinch.
what ever
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3rd March 2008, 03:15 PM
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Which reminds me of a great line by a small-medium business--the name escapes me. At any rate, that software equivalent of the RIAA came after him for unlicensed software and wound up getting a good deal of money.
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Are you talking about this guy?
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3rd March 2008, 04:09 PM
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Beware the BSA!
Therefore, I run a completely Microsoft® free shop.
EDIT: During our trip to Texas, back in August/September of 2007, these same ads started running on 1520 KOKC (50,000 watts) and I think they also ran a large media slug on 1080 KRLD (50,000 watts) about the same time.
Dan
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