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Story: Gates: Restricting IP rights is tantamount to communism
Posted by: Andy (Friday 7 January 2005, 8:31 AM)
Samuel,
Replying to you in the same vein as you just replied:
You must be one of the MS morons that has been nrainwashed into thinking that MS products are the best thing since fire was invented! If MS is so great, why do we have so many security flaws? Why do we need to buy (and continue to buy) anti-virus programs, anti-spam programs, anti-adware programs.
Why, if MS software is so good, do we have masses of security vunerabilities? Why do we get warned not to open certain file types? Why do we have phishing attacks, spambots, trojans etc etc?
Wake up and smell the roses. MS is a convicted monopolist that would happily beat every other software company to the ground, make programming for anything other than MS software illegal and force you to use YOUR computer the way THEY want.
There, end of rant. I use MS software because I have to, not because I like it (I prefer *nix). I use Firefox and OpenOffice at home and, if it wasn't for the problems there are with porting games to Linux, I'd ditch Windows at home altogether.
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Story: Gates: Restricting IP rights is tantamount to communism
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The magic word "communism" always seems to be used... Arthur B. -
Are we suddenly back in the 1950s? Perhaps Mr... Chris Rankin -
I agree with Arthur B.
Mr Gates should read... Micheal H
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Gates is precisely correct: communism operat... Brent Roberts
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Confusion between IP rights and copyrigh... Steve B -
Brent Roberts is wrong.
"Gates is precis... Kevin Peacock
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There can be so such 'rights' which... Brent Roberts -
Brent. Sigh. Communism has not... Arthur B.
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If a requisite of "skills, kno... Brent Roberts
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Brent. I would like to recomme... Arthur B.
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An interesting debate Brent, b... Kevin Peacock
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Lets stick with the mousetrap... Brent Roberts
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A good reply Arthur.
Brent, I... Kevin Peacock
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Hi Brent, what OO version are you using... ricardo mardisich
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Ricardo – I'm using version 1.1.1.... Brent Roberts
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Oh bugger off, the world's a better place with win... samuel
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Samuel,
Replying to you in the same vein as y... Andy -
Not much ammunition left for Mr Gates.
I... Anonymous
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The world Mr Gates wants to see has far more in co... Kevin Peacock
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I see he's had to resort to name-calling again.
So... Steve J
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World is much worse off thanks to MS and IBM... Steve B
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I think that Gates is unwanted and unnee... NJ
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Kevin. Well said. Very well said.
B... Arthur B.
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"Its eyes ever set on the competition, Microsoft w... Ricardo Mardisich
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"the world... ricardo mardisich
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Ricardo, thanks for your comment. We wou... Matt Loney
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Beside the fact that this is nothing more than FUD... BURNAND Patrick
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I find Bill Gates comments on mesh networking inte... Andy Coney
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In a similar discussion on IP rights on a dif... Mark Jones
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