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Back when there was ONE link to email MS. ^^^^ >>> On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 11:16 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
