Microsoft caught pirating somebody's patent again!!!
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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 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 subprime Bimbos] > > > > >
From: Unknown on 19 Mar 2010 14:30
I see you're playing stupid again. Looks like you're winning too. "LD55ZRA" <LD55ZRA(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:hnupe1$1b4$3(a)speranza.aioe.org... > 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 subprime >> Bimbos] >> >> >> >> > |