windows sucks
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Mark
** Registered Linux user # 182496 **
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Romanator wrote:
> "Ronald J. Hall" wrote:
> >
> > Romanator wrote:
> > >
> > > Nyuk..Nyuk..
> >
> > <grin> Seriously though, isn't it a well documented fact that MS
> > has "acquired" (and I use that term loosely!) much of Windoze code?
> >
> > PS For example, the compression (HD) software. Didn't they have
> > to buy the code from a small company that was suing them? ;-)
> >
> > --
> > /\
> > Dark><Lord
> > \/
>
> I am not 100% sure but it sounds familiar. They have purchased a lot of
> the smaller companies that provide coding, installation, uninstall,
> 'dll' stuff. A fair chunk of the coding is not necessarily written
> inside the Microsoft building. They own many smaller companies that
> contribute to the general product.
> Can you imagine if you had a smaller software producing good software,
> and then you tried to
> challenge Microsoft. Not only will they buy your company through the
> courts, and, if you don't
> agree or conform with their philosophy, they will boot you out of your
> own company.
>
>
