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Story: Pricing scuppers Media Player-free XP
Posted by: Chris Rankin (Monday 27 June 2005, 7:46 PM)
1998: I remember it well...
That was the year that MS integrated Internet Explorer into Windows, thereby illegally leveraging their Operating System (OS) monopoly to destroy a competitor in the application market. This was precisely why the EU was so insistent that MS remove Media Player from Windows.
It was also the year that I realised that so long as I depended upon a MS OS, then MS was holding a metaphorical gun to my head: for example, if I ever wanted to use those shiny USB ports I'd discovered on the back of my PC then I'd have to upgrade to Win98 and buy all the other whizzy bits such as I.E., Active Desktop and animated dinosaur mouse cursors that I had neither interest in nor use for. That struck me as a very poor deal, and so I made Slackware Linux my desktop instead.
And Smithy: For the record, the Internet is, and always has been, built on Open Source. Consider TCP/IP, HTTP, DHCP and DNS, for example; all Open Protocols. Even Windows 2000 contains Open Source BSD code, such as the TCP/IP stack.
And as for "recent studies" showing anything, did it occur to you to ask who funded those studies (whichever ones they may be)? Come on, get a grip!
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Story: Pricing scuppers Media Player-free XP
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The incredible stupidity of the brain dead bureauc... Smithy -
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Matt : "especially in the future when ev... Smithy
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1998: I remember it well...
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Matt: "Wisdom of the Bush administration? ope... smithy
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Microsoft is walking a narrow line here. As part... Mark Grosskopf
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Doesn't matter if Microsoft integrates something o... Arthur B.
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Chris Rankin :" suppose the EU's legal requirement... Smithy
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Chris Rankin : "1998: I remember it well...
That... Smithy
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Chris Rankin : "This was precisely why the EU was... Smithy
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Arthur B : "Competition works. Competition inspire... Smithy
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Smithy: Microsoft must offer XP-N for sale in... Chris Rankin
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Microsoft's spokesperson said "Microsoft... Lupa
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Chris Rankin : "Wow, a spokesperson for... Smithy
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EU Drongocrats when will you pillocks learn? Stop... Andy Dale
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Hi, think Windows XP could be cut back further, Wi... Carol M Kemp
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"Carl M Kemp" or whatever : "Hi, think Windows XP... Smithy
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Lupa : "This is very interesting comment. If so, h... Smithy
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Chris Rankin, : "And yes, I.E. was included in Win... Smithy
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Chris Rankin : "And Smithy: For the record, the In... Smithy
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Smithy: Open Source is a development process... Chris Rankin
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Clearly there are lunatics everywhere...... Jonathan Webb
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Either Smithy is on a mission to wi... Paul Tansom
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Chris Rankin : "Now please calm down. You are rant... Smithy
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Chris Rankin : "Open Source is a development proce... Smithy
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Smithy, Microsoft started taking huge chunks out o... Arthur B.
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Paul Tansom : "open source nuts, a group that is f... Smithy
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Smithy, any idea how many Microsoft loving sales m... Arthur B.
