Author Topic: The Punishment Due  (Read 1039 times)

jtpenrod

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The Punishment Due
« Reply #15 on: 20 November 2003, 21:43 »
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 If I was a programmer and found my code in Microsoft . That they copyrighted as they made it. Suppose I was very rich I would sue Microsoft out of existing.


How can they do this? anyone?



Now you know why Jim Allchin took the stand during the anti-trust trial and swore under oath that Windows code is so shitty that allowing anyone to actually see it would be a threat to Nat'l security.   ;)  
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« Reply #16 on: 21 November 2003, 06:33 »
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1. Require Microsoft to publish complete documentation of all interfaces between software components, all communications protocols, and all file formats. This would block one of Microsoft's favourite tactics: secret and incompatible interfaces.


Yah they keep finding unpublished M$ API's all the time, and by "they" I mean M$. LOL. Windoze Media Player comes to mind.

Education, education, education. That's the only way M$ will ever be beat, well unless they go tits up because we actually find that their accountants were just as "innovative" as their so called engineers.

No, we / you  need to educate people as to why a world without M$ would be better, educate people that yes, there is a wrong and a right way of doing things. Then perhaps people will decide for themselves, make the right choice when presented with the facts.
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