i'd be laughing really, really hard if this wasn't so sad.
i've said it before. am sure i'll say it again.
MS could give lessons to George Orwell.
Brent Eades wrote:
>
> I have been struck more than once by the parallels between MS business practices
> and the Stalinist regime in the USSR earlier in the century: both brutal autocracies
> brooking nary a hint of dissent; both with gulags where competing points of view go
> (in the MS case it's called "licensing the other guy's software then burying it");
>and
> so on.
>
> I've also noted the MS penchant for rewriting history a la Stalinists, as it suits
>their
> devious purposes; so I wasn't especially surprised to find the following on the MS
> Liquid Motion download page:
>
> * * *
>
> /Try & Buy - Convenient Free Trial/
>
> Microsoft is pleased to announce a new free trial method for customers who are
> interested in Liquid Motion version 1.0. The product is only available from the
> following participating resellers. Select a reseller to download your free version of
> Microsoft Liquid Motion today!
>
> /About Try & Buy/
>
> The Try & Buy process is a new method of obtaining software on-line that lets you
> download the full featured product, try it for up to 45 days, then purchase it if you
> choose. In fact you can purchase the product at any time before, during, or after
> the trial process. You purchase the product by entering your credit card into a
> secure payment processing program right on your computer.
>
> etc etc
>
> * * *
>
> Now, I'm just a kinda low-key Canadian fellah from a small town, don't get out too
> much, but I'm pretty darn sure I've heard of such a thing before -- think I've even
> bought software this way before -- what's it called? Ummm... wait, I've got it...
> yeah, *shareware*. That's it. Shareware.
>
> Sheesh.
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