25 Sep
2011
25 Sep
'11
7:15 p.m.
On 25/09/11 9:11 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
On 9/25/2011 5:55 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
Yes, all this happens DESPITE the best efforts of this great criminal
toad that still squats over us, skimming here, FUDding there,
continually meditating on new ways of ripping the mainstream off and
lock people in. Criminal DNA to the core. Need to be knocked down to a
size where they are forced to actually compete (since they are incapable
of it, they won't last long in that state). The company will implode
sooner or later, as it has served its original purpose for Gates.
On 25/09/11 8:29 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
I'd prefer to ignore them completely too, but we all pay a price for
their colossal crime spree in various ways (including this specific
one). When they're gone, we can get back to advancing computing
instead of see it used as a launchpad for extortion.
What, specifically, is holding back this "advancing" of computing?
Plenty of open hardware and open software out there, and people are
doing all sorts of creative things with it. > AH,
but what happens when the computer company sells a computer
> with an OS
> other than Windoze? Does Microsoft still demand that the windoze
> license
> be paid on EVERYTHING that the company makes, including Linux
> machines?
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011, Toby Thain wrote:
Yes. I guess you haven't been paying
attention...
You are correct.
(I have a pile of PS/2 keyboards without Windows logos that I'd be happy
to donate to your cause, if it'll help...)
I must own about 60 keyboards and none of them has a Windows logo, but
thanks.
--Toby
Josh
--Toby