Check this out everyone: http://www.microsoft.com/misc/features/features_flshbk_hp1.htm
That was the first website. I saw the image on: http://www.microsoft.com/misc/features/features_flshbk.htm Thank the lord for Wikipedia articles.. -- Dustin Puryear President and Sr. Consultant Puryear Information Technology, LLC 225-706-8414 x112 http://www.puryear-it.com Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices/ willhill wrote: > These things haunt my memory from 15 years ago: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winsock > http://learning.lib.vt.edu/WINTCPIP/trumpwsk.html > > Oh God, no! This must be why I remained an AOL user until I discovered Red > Hat and got a cable modem: > http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article04-100 > >>From what I've read, the architecture has not improved from the early days >>and > DRM in Vista makes things worse. Network transfers are supposed to be slower > than they should be and they get worse if you play music. BSD people, we > can be sure, are unimpressed but I don't know if they ever felt ripped off. > I have read but can't put my finger on some general rip offs from the porting > effort, where those who helped out were not happy. To someone who enjoys > pain, this is all nostalgic stuff. > > The new rounds of rip off represented by SCO and Novell are more serious > because they undo the express wishes of programmers and threaten all of our > software freedom. If M$ gets away with their bogus patent threats they will > be able to charge us all rent to use software that they actively hindered > while it was in development. There is already evidence besides the hideous > M$ Novell deal that people are paying tribute: > > http://boycottnovell.com/2007/05/15/linux-money-for-ms/ > > The ability to charge rent for a thing is a close equivalent to being its > owner but better in some ways. Unlike the government and industry sponsored > free ride M$ got from BSD, or the pennies on the dollar software purchased > from former competitors, M$ will not have to exert any effort to maintaining > a taxed GNU/Linux. If they can steal GNU/Linux, they can steal any software > you write in the future. It would be the biggest act of software piracy > ever. By laying patent claims to ideas they would own your work and tax > anyone who tried to use it. > > > On Friday 08 August 2008, Brad Bendily wrote: >>> What code does Microsoft have that belongs to Linux? I've heard that >>> one. I'd like to know more. >> I always thought it was the IP stack. They had stolen or borrowed most >> of the BSD network stack maybe? >> bb >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > -- > This message was scanned by ESVA and is believed to be clean. > Click here to report this message as spam. > http://esva.puryear-it.com/cgi-bin/learn-msg.cgi?id= > > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
