http://tinyurl.com/4slmo [Business Week Online] "The company's demeanor was no different inside the courtroom. Gosling, a Sun vice-president, faced off against Microsoft Associate General Counsel Thomas Burt, who doggedly attacked Gosling's 35-page direct testimony. The key issue -- and the subject of civil litig
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Additionally... I do not know you Brandon, but you might be old enough to remember the first iterations of this marketing tactic. http://tinyurl.com/4bcw8 [eWeek.com] "Yes, some of us from way back then are still around and writing about this business. And, we were also around when Microsoft finally
Actually I read the Article a week ago. http://tinyurl.com/52p5u [SlashDot Link] "Still, even if this is only an initial attempt, they appear to want to discriminate wine users, while this may be acceptable for operating system components/updates, this is probably a violation of anti-trust law for all other downl
It is just sad that MS is so scared of losing Market Share and Product Revenues, that they purposefully go and break an application that allows them to sell more copies of thier Office Application. It isn't enough that they sell an Office Suite, they want to force the End Users to purchase a MS OpSYS, to boot. I mean some shops are primarily Linux, or some form of *niX variant and maintain MS Office Suite only to be interoperable with businesses that r
I think you are misunderstanding system requirements, rather than a licensing necessity. But the truth of the matter is that MS actually intended to break WINE, by using a call for identification and if WINE is returned..then it returns an unspecified error, and becomes Broken.
Additionally directly from the horses mouth. "Microsoft software can talk to mainframes and minicomputers from IBM and other manufacturers; other operating systems such as the Mac OS and various UNIXes including Linux; NetWare or AppleTalk networks and native Internet protocols; dozens of programming languages, ranging from COBOL and RPG, through C++ and Java, to the latest experimental languages; hundreds of databases including Oracle, Syb
A license is a license. I do not remember reading, Windows use only. I might have missed it though. The software was legitimately purchased to run on Windows XP, not Linux. Here's a nice article for you to read. http://tinyurl.com/6vkph "In his statement, Gates had said: "Many of Microso
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Yes, you have a series of valid points. That is why I provided the Documentation Links, and quantified my opinions. Truth be told though, in all my years of Computing I have been hit by 3 actual Viri. I do not include all the ad/malware intrusions here. I try to practice as many safe principles as I can. Trusted Sources, scan attachments, and no previews in email are the Golden three for me. Not to be forgotten also is disabled vbs. My main concerns no
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Review: ClamWin Antivirus SourceForge Project of the Month February 2005 Looking for some way to keep your Machine safe? Need a way to detect and remove virii? Then ClamWin Antivirus is the way to go. ClamWin AntiVirus 'What is that you ask?' Well to be short and to the point, it is an OSS AntiVirus Client. OSS being, Open Source Software. Now many are saying to themselves, 'Hey! I can get that done with Mcaffee, or Norton, or Panda, why do I
I guess with todays trends towards Blogging, you have to stake a place to call you're own. Welcome to the Zocalo, or Town Square. My Town Square, that is to say. I am sure I am going to say some things here that are going to tick some people off, and just might titilate some others, and to a few people, I just m
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