Bill Gates Blackmailing Denmark

"A Guy Called Tyketto" wrote in message
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In alt.comp.hardware.amd.x86-64 Ted Campanelli
wrote:
Ted shuffled out of his cave and grunted these great (and sometimes not
so great) words of knowledge:

What I find interesting is that monopolies are not legal in this country
(US ). Where is the competition to Microsoft ? Please don't say Linux.
I am referring to an OS that will run the majority of windows programs.

You just shot yourself in the foot there. "They must run
windows programs." You want an alternative competitor to M$ that can
run M$ programs? Something proprietary to M$? That is akin to
antitrust, which M$ just got lambasted in court for both in the US and
the EU.

You want competition? Linux. Open Office. Or even WINE.

Bill has the software manufacturers and hardware manufacturers doing
what he wants. If they want to sell their product IT MUST BE ABLE TO
RUN UNDER WINDOWS.

My Opteron 140, Gigabyte K8NNXP-940, Linksys WRT54G, ForteMedia
sound card, and SATA drives all disagree with you. They are running
perfectly... under LINUX.

Back in "the old days" you had a choice of an os. There was PC Dos, MS
Dos, C-Dos plus a few others I don't remember. Bill managed to get rid
of all the "threats".

Mr. Torvalds would happily disagree with you. Do more homework.

Where were our "illustrious" government watchdogs while this was going
on ? Where are they now ? Are they doing anything ? Nope, Bill owns
them.

Seeing that the EU Appelate courts through his appeal out and
made the door hit him on his way out, I don't think Gates of Borg owns
them. If anything, they are now growing tired of him. As well as the
people around, who keep getting all of these security updates because
Gates can't keep his OS and programs straight. Perfect example:

I'm running Slackware 10.1 on my linux box. My last security
update for the distribution, was Oct. 31st, 2004, for crashing of CVS,
which that ended up being a bugfix. For a real security update, it was
Oct. 25th. Those were for 2 programs: Apache, and mod_ssl. Between then
and now, M$ has had over 40 vulnerabilities in various programs used in
its OS. 2 to 40. Hmmm... Should I even get into worms, virii, and any
other trojans?

BL.
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"I'm running Slackware 10.1 on my linux box. My last security
update for the distribution, was Oct. 31st, 2004, for crashing of CVS,
which that ended up being a bugfix. For a real security update, it was
Oct. 25th. Those were for 2 programs: Apache, and mod_ssl. Between then
and now, M$ has had over 40 vulnerabilities in various programs used in
its OS. 2 to 40. Hmmm... Should I even get into worms, virii, and any
other trojans?"

So? The big dog gets more fleas. Whats so surprising about that? And to the
original poster...Sorry, I won't cross post this for you

"Jon dough" wrote in message
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Ted Campanelli wrote in
m:

Ted shuffled out of his cave and grunted these great (and sometimes
not so great) words of knowledge:

What I find interesting is that monopolies are not legal in this
country (US ). Where is the competition to Microsoft ? Please don't
say Linux.


Apple is a much bigger monopoly than microsoft ever was. Microsoft only
makes software (and some hardware accessories), but if you want a mac
computer or os you HAVE to got through Apple.

I am referring to an OS that will run the majority of windows
programs.

You're being stupid. This is like asking why a GMC water pump wont work on
a toyota.

Bill has the software manufacturers and hardware manufacturers doing
what he wants. If they want to sell their product IT MUST BE ABLE TO
RUN UNDER WINDOWS.

This is more of a sply and demand thing. If Hardware manufacturers want to
stay in business they must create hardware that is compatable with the
most
popular OS.

Back in "the old days" you had a choice of an os. There was PC Dos,
MS Dos, C-Dos plus a few others I don't remember. Bill managed to get
rid of all the "threats".

Because he is a better business man. They others couldn't compete.

Where were our "illustrious" government watchdogs while this was going
on ? Where are they now ? Are they doing anything ? Nope, Bill owns
them.


The guvernment can go **** themselves. The biggest monopoly in the US is
the United States Government. They are also the most incompetent Monopoly.
BTW, have you noticed that every time the Government has broken up a
"monopoly" it has resulted in higher prices. Do some research and stop
making a fool out of yourself.

Hey dough-boy..._who's_ making a fool of himself?

BTW, have you noticed that every time the Government has
broken up a "monopoly" it has resulted in higher prices. Do some
research and stop making a fool out of yourself.

Hey dough-boy..._who's_ making a fool of himself?




That's right, I forgot that gas rices wenbt down when standard oil was
broken up, or that my phone bill got cheaper when MaBell was broken up,
or... never mind.