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M$ taking their ball and going home.
ash:
Well, apparently, Ballmer (M$ CEO) has said that they may stop shipping Windows if they lose the Anti-trust case thingamajig.
Go Here
And here The register
for the story.
Very stupid, but it will get a Lot (several hundred million lets say??) of people on their side for the case, not wanting to have to find alternatives to Windoze. Not to stereotype, but most of them would be completely unaware that there are other OS's for the PC than windows.
I wonder how much of this is truth, that they cannot seperate IE from windows, and how much is just FUD and hardball threats??
Calum:
Oh dear.
They will stop shipping windows.
I am distraught.
</sarcasm>
whoop dee doo! who cares if they stop punting their crappy windows?
It would be great! most software developers would immediately bring out linux versions of things, since the market would be split into mac and linux, and many developers already support mac better than linux. They would stop releasing new windows versions of things too.
This is the reason why it will not happen.
If M$ stops shipping windows, it loses it's stranglehold on the computing rank and file. It becomes just another software developer (and not too favourite a one in the public eye, not to mention not a very good one either) and has to compete with Adobe, Sun, Macromedia, Apple, Nullsoft et c.
Not a chance. it would be like driving out into the desert with no food and then shooting out all of your tires once you had run out of petrol.
It won't happen.
lu666s:
Atta snivelling jerk Balmer is. Macro$uck commedy.
Wel, darn, can he start NOT shipping windoze tomorrow? That would so nice of him. He has all my support in this endeavor! :D :D :D
[ March 05, 2002: Message edited by: lu666s ]
dbl221:
Its just the posturing of a bully who got beaten by a better fighter thats all....ignore Baldballs....I mean Balmer.
jtpenrod:
Here's another interesting statement Ballmer made during his temper tantrum.
quote: The degree to which it requires documentation of internal interfaces, the degree to which it requires - what do they call that stuff where, you know, you can't degrade the performance of any body else at any time in any way on any interface...
--- End quote ---
They call that "stuff" honor, integrity, and fair play. But you wouldn't know *anything* about that, now would you - you FAT, BALD, UGLY, MONKEY-DANCING SACK OF SHIT.
Yes, why don't you take your Windows and just go home? (I've seen four-year-olds with more maturity than this asshole.) And don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out.
Dare we hope?(!) :D
[ March 10, 2002: Message edited by: jtpenrod ]
[ March 10, 2002: Message edited by: jtpenrod ]
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