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mc0282

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Microsoft to ease Windows license terms
« on: 22 April 2003, 23:48 »
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997715.html

hmm, i wonder what microdick is up to now?, i think they're feeling the heat from Linux. i bet 20 buck microsoft is going try to buy out linux in near future.
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« Reply #1 on: 23 April 2003, 00:46 »
They will probably change the licence to allow people to install a copy of windows xp on 1.5 computers   :D
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« Reply #2 on: 24 April 2003, 15:25 »
Pointless. This doesn't do alot, and it does nothing for the end user.
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« Reply #3 on: 24 April 2003, 16:58 »
it's pure marketing and it makes me angry. my girlfriend showed this story to me in yesterday's paper, interestingly the article was gushing about how wonderful microsoft were going to bring a new dimension to computing blah blah blah and then at the end they had some guy from a linux user group quoted saying it was all a load of FUD and they were too late to pull the wool over anybody's eyes.

edit: and i would want front row tickets if microsoft ever tried to buy out linux, how could they? i bet they have been trying to think of a way for years!

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« Reply #4 on: 25 April 2003, 05:39 »
i heard that M$ was going to alter their windows media license.


They are scared of the open-source community!
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« Reply #5 on: 28 April 2003, 13:04 »
Will altering their license actually allow me to install XP Service Packs?
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« Reply #6 on: 29 April 2003, 14:14 »
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Following complaints from some rivals, Microsoft said it would make it cheaper and easier for other software companies to access key pieces of computer code that their server software needs in order to properly function with the Windows operating system.
WTF!  :eek:  

It would not even be necessary for other companies to access key parts of Winderz code for their server software had M$ not been corrupting protocols and standards in the first place. This strongly suggests yet another embrase, extend, extinguish strategy. Just more of the same old, same old.
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