Hello PIXIE, this is really a message for TBOT. Moving it there (hence the full quote).
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 08:17:56 -0400 GMT (27/08/2003, 19:17 +0700 GMT), PIXIE wrote: > I was checking in on my favorite file manager http://www.ghisler.com/ > and was redirected to http://swpat.ffii.org shortly after a brief > message about Christian's protest effort. > Do you think the panic is warranted? We in the US have had this sort > of big fish - little fish situation for some time I think and it's > hard to really see clearly how much or what loss has occurred because > of software patenting. > All I know at this point is how frustrating it is to have people write > programs that rely on MS IE and other 'non monopolistic' freebie > programs that are infused in windows.. sigh. It's becoming very > tiresome trying to assemble a suite of core applications on my lean OS > setup that don't require some more crap from the microsoft pasta > machine. > Pixie -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. Wie man in den Wald hineingeht, so kommt man wieder heraus. Message reply created with The Bat! 2.0 Beta/5 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using a Pentium P4 1.7 GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62r | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
