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From: vjp2.at on 18 Mar 2010 10:37
Before OS/2 I liked MS. I had an MS-DOS-Generic (no-bitmap, no IBM compat)
80186 and Microsoft went out of their way to be helpful.
I also ran Multiplan on that Ampro 2210 with an HP2621a terminal.

I joke about it, but it feels like this is true: when MS did biz with
IBM on OS/2 it was almost like IBM body snatched MS and IBM died - IBM
since then is a very different firm, and MS acts like the old IBM did.

I also feel the venture capital industry badly distorted itself after
the MS IPO. Before that you got a quarter million in VC and sold the
company to a larger firm two years later, which is much more humane
for the mad scientist entrepreneurs.

American hardware always overcompensated in those days. Serial ports
had a fanout of five, but the Japanese products would only tolerate
one. Standards and compatibility became obsolete. The So-called
Japanese model foisted on us in the mid 1980s was a disaster. It had
nothing to do with the traditional American capitalism.

- = -
Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist
http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm http://www.facebook.com/vasjpan2
---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}---
[Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards]
[Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Phooey on GUI: Windows for subprime Bimbos]



From: LD55ZRA on 18 Mar 2010 23:00

German Swine has manipulated my original message!



LD55ZRA wrote:

> Whatever may be the case, Microsoft is a thief and it should be forced
> to install PGA - Patent Genuine Advantage just like you and me are
> required to install WGA - Windows Genuine Advantage.
>
> There must be a mechanism to curb Microsoft's temptation to pirate
> somebody's patent.
>
> hth
>
>
> vjp2.at(a)at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
>
>> Before OS/2 I liked MS. I had an MS-DOS-Generic (no-bitmap, no IBM
>> compat)
>> 80186 and Microsoft went out of their way to be helpful.
>> I also ran Multiplan on that Ampro 2210 with an HP2621a terminal.
>>
>> I joke about it, but it feels like this is true: when MS did biz with
>> IBM on OS/2 it was almost like IBM body snatched MS and IBM died - IBM
>> since then is a very different firm, and MS acts like the old IBM did.
>>
>> I also feel the venture capital industry badly distorted itself after
>> the MS IPO. Before that you got a quarter million in VC and sold the
>> company to a larger firm two years later, which is much more humane
>> for the mad scientist entrepreneurs.
>>
>> American hardware always overcompensated in those days. Serial ports
>> had a fanout of five, but the Japanese products would only tolerate
>> one. Standards and compatibility became obsolete. The So-called
>> Japanese model foisted on us in the mid 1980s was a disaster. It had
>> nothing to do with the traditional American capitalism.
>> - = -
>> Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus,
>> BioStrategist
>> http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm
>> http://www.facebook.com/vasjpan2 ---{Nothing herein constitutes
>> advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}---
>> [Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards]
>> [Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Phooey on GUI: Windows for su
From: Carmel on 19 Mar 2010 06:14
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:00:00 +0000
LD55ZRA <LD55ZRA(a)discussions.microsoft.com> articulated:

>German Swine has manipulated my original message!

--
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.:\:/:.
+-------------------+ .:\:\:/:/:.
| PLEASE DO NOT | :.:\:\:/:/:.:
| FEED THE TROLLS | :=.' - - '.=:
| | '=(\ 9 9 /)='
| Thank you, | ( (_) )
| Management | /`-vvv-'\
+-------------------+ / \
| | @@@ / /|,,,,,|\ \
| | @@@ /_// /^\ \\_\
@x@@x@ | | |/ WW( ( ) )WW
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From: Shenan Stanley on 19 Mar 2010 08:38
LD55ZRA wrote:
> German Swine has manipulated my original message!

Carmel wrote:
> .:\:/:.
> +-------------------+ .:\:\:/:/:.
> | PLEASE DO NOT | :.:\:\:/:/:.:
> | FEED THE TROLLS | :=.' - - '.=:
> | | '=(\ 9 9 /)='
> | Thank you, | ( (_) )
> | Management | /`-vvv-'\
> +-------------------+ / \
> | | @@@ / /|,,,,,|\ \
> | | @@@ /_// /^\ \\_\
> @x@@x@ | | |/ WW( ( ) )WW
> \||||/ | | \| __\,,\ /,,/__
> \||/ | | | (______Y______)
> /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\//\/\\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\

Carmel,

In this case, you are asking the troll(s) not to eat - not asking someone to
stop feeding them. ;-)

And ASCII art may not come across like you want it to in a newsgroup with
various newsreaders, synchronizing forums, etc.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
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How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html


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