On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 01:42:37PM -0700, Bob Miller wrote:Outlook is not, nor ever was, free. so everyone who purchased Office would qualify under those terms,
It's all Microsoft's fault, of course. A friend of mine has been
mumbling about starting a class action suit against them, claiming
that selling insecure, bug-ridden crap software to end users is
willful negligence. The members of the plaintiff class would be
people such as ourselves who're trying to share networks with
Microsoft-ridden computers. I.e., everybody on the Internet.
Microsoft will settle. They'll say, we'll give everyone in the suit $100 in damages for every copy of outlook express or outlook they have purchased. They'll also through in another $100 for all of their insecure copies of Internet Explorer that people have purchased.
For those who don't get it, oe and outlook are free. Outlook used to be packaged separately, but is now part of office. There is no case.
Cory
and its not IE thats the issue anyway, its the underlying OS, which is also not free. I think we have a fine case.
My web hosting company has suffered lost revenue and time due to the rpc-dcom worms, and I personally
spent 4 hours today dealing with connectivity issues directly related to sobig F. I did not agree to the MS license agreements,
so they can't give me that fitness for a particular purpose crap. Its their software that is mucking up my business, I deserve to be
compensated. If ford motor company put faulty brakes in their vehicles and my toyota based fleet was damaged by a swarm
fender benders related to fords faulty brakes, it would be fords, not the individual drivers who hit my vehicles, fault.
--Christopher one small bastion of opensourceness in a sea of patrioidiots.
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