On 5 Mar 2002, at 23:29, Glen wrote:
>
> Ya know, while it would force the world to be a better place, it just
> wouldn't affect me much if windows fell off the earth entirely. Other than,
> of course, people would be more accepting of a program that's not
> pre-compiled with that VC++ crap. Email me for details - I'm pretty hot about
> it.
>
> Glen
>
It would also mean that 65 - 75% of all the internet users would no
longer be internet users. Woo Hoo!
>
> On Tuesday 05 March 2002 23:13, you wrote:
> > >What an dramatic and definitive proof of Microsoft's choke-hold on
> > >personal computing!
> > >
> > >If a monopoly has grown to such extent that it can intimidate our
> > >justice system by merely threatening to withhold a product, then it has
> > >become a threat to our way of life. It's time for the Second American
> > >Revolution.
> >
> > Ok so what if they withhold the Windows Operating System? There is always a
> > few things that they will pull.
> >
> > With Microsoft's new licensing you notice the products all say they support
> > .Net so then it they would simply
> > do something to the effect of renaming Windows to .NetOs They will harp
> > that this is all new technology which is
> > doing nothing more then making the Os integrated with the Office products
> > with this to say it is a ASP type of package.
> >
> > The Os will be so far embedded as they do with everything else. You will
> > then have to upgrade the Licenses as they just
> > pushed for Office XP and Windows XP!
> >
> > They remind me of a line from the John Carpenter's movie They Live!
> >
> > The golden rule he who has the Gold makes the rule!
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Fri Aug 01 2014 - 17:43:07 EDT