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Story: Gates: Restricting IP rights is tantamount to communism
Posted by: ricardo mardisich (Monday 10 January 2005, 3:32 PM)
Hi Brent, what OO version are you using please? Is it the latest testing Build or stable? I've just read a survey that placed Open Office ahead of M$ Office in all major real world office tasks. Do you want all the links?
I agree with Steve B, you are definitely confusing IP with copyrights. I think you may want to look at this issue a bit closer before you slap sentence of 'cliché' words on it. "Just for fun?" does this give you a license to slap an "Inferior" label on Open Office? Who said that functionality alone could determine the superiority of one program over the other?
Australian PC Authority did a thorough survey of all available office suites, Open Office won on all counts.
Look it up, this is not star office 2000! You may find that your opinion on OO is out of date.
Sounds like you installed Linux on your lappie just for the sake of looking like you know something about Linux, or maybe you work for some M$ sponsored affiliate, & use your Linux laptop to claim some type of credibility in your pro- software patenting tendencies.
It's too late for M$ to stop open source, the only thing left for bill to do is to threaten the general computing public & countries with Patent 'Litigation'. Oh, & also name calling, putting words like 'Communism' next to the topic of open source.
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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 -
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
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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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Microsoft Litigation Resource Page
"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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