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Re: Resistance is futile.

wyliecoyoteuk — Sun Feb 10, 2008 2:10 pm

Author: wyliecoyoteuk

Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 2:10 pm

1slipperyfish wrote:

it's not dealing it's sharing, which i thought what the linux community is all about
i've also got some magic beans if you're interested wc??
paul

Sorry, I already sold my cow.

Re: Resistance is futile.

Rhakios — Sun Feb 10, 2008 1:12 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 1:12 pm

jjmac wrote:

Is optimism just another delusional state ?

Yes.

Re: Resistance is futile.

jjmac — Sun Feb 10, 2008 11:52 am

Author: jjmac

Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 11:52 am

slippery wrote:
>>
i think you're being a bit unfair on uncle bill he only wants to be our friend, perhaps we've been having free software for long enough???
paul
>>

Some ones just gotta shot you, one of these days slippery (grin)

pootman wrote:
>>
Let's be fair to Microsoft, I seriously doubt they'd waste money on a company just to bury its products.
>>

hmmmm, if i didn't know better, i'd actually be a bit worried about you pootman ....
But, i have been wrong before, hmmmm

Is optimism just another delusional state ?

jm

As the great Joey almost once said ...
"I wana be deported"

Re: Resistance is futile.

Rhakios — Sun Feb 10, 2008 10:04 am

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 10:04 am

Yeah right, give 'em the first dose free, then charge 'em when they become addicts. I know your game, you dirty pusher.

Re: Resistance is futile.

1slipperyfish — Sun Feb 10, 2008 8:25 am

Author: 1slipperyfish

Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 8:25 am

it's not dealing it's sharing, which i thought what the linux community is all about
i've also got some magic beans if you're interested wc??
paul

Re: Resistance is futile.

Rhakios — Sat Feb 09, 2008 4:09 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 4:09 pm

1slipperyfish wrote:

wyliecoyoteuk wrote:

whatever you're smoking, I want some

sure just give me your address
paul

No dealing on the forums! Unless you want plod to have your address as well.

Re: Resistance is futile.

1slipperyfish — Sat Feb 09, 2008 2:18 pm

Author: 1slipperyfish

Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 2:18 pm

wyliecoyoteuk wrote:

1slipperyfish wrote:

i think you're being a bit unfair on uncle bill he only wants to be our friend, perhaps we've been having free software for long enough???
paul

whatever you're smoking, I want some

sure just give me your address
paul

Re: Resistance is futile.

ollie — Sat Feb 09, 2008 8:57 am

Author: ollie

Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 8:57 am

Lamb0 wrote:

Yes, I still use Hotmail as one of my e-mail accounts. Microsoft keeps moving features into Live and out of "classic" Hotmail to force the issue, but I've no interest in tying my MEPIS to Microsoft. Once I get all my Windows astronomy (imaging) software running under WINE, I won't be booting into Windows as often as I do now - 2 to 6 times per month.

I've found that using a Windows XP installation in a VirtualBox VM for the few times a month I need to see something in Windows the best way to go

I know it needs a license but I get one through work for marking students' work.

PM me if you want a Gmail account to get rid of Hotmail totally. Gmail's spam filtering works wonders, so I use it to "register" sites/products before changing the email address if I don't get a hundred extra spam messages the next day

Re: Resistance is futile.

Lamb0 — Sat Feb 09, 2008 7:19 am

Author: Lamb0

Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 7:19 am

ollie wrote:

One of Microsoft's biggest purchases ran on open source software. It continued this way for about two years whilst they worked out a way to stuff it. And it has only taken another 3 years to "disappear" after changing to Microsoft Windows Servers.

Anyone remember a little company called Hotmail? The originator of web based email!

Re: Resistance is futile.

wyliecoyoteuk — Sun Oct 21, 2007 6:42 pm

Author: wyliecoyoteuk

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 6:42 pm

1slipperyfish wrote:

i think you're being a bit unfair on uncle bill he only wants to be our friend, perhaps we've been having free software for long enough???
paul

whatever you're smoking, I want some

Re: Resistance is futile.

ollie — Sun Oct 21, 2007 1:06 pm

Author: ollie

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 1:06 pm

One of Microsoft's biggest purchases ran on open source software. It continued this way for about two years whilst they worked out a way to stuff it. And it has only taken another 3 years to "disappear" after changing to Microsoft Windows Servers.

Anyone remember a little company called Hotmail? The originator of web based email!

Re: Resistance is futile.

1slipperyfish — Sun Oct 21, 2007 10:46 am

Author: 1slipperyfish

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 10:46 am

i think you're being a bit unfair on uncle bill he only wants to be our friend, perhaps we've been having free software for long enough???
paul

RE: Re: RE: Resistance is futile.

pootman — Sun Oct 21, 2007 10:05 am

Author: pootman

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 10:05 am

Welcome to the team, DZ015.

That's catchy.

RE: Re: RE: Resistance is futile.

Rhakios — Sat Oct 20, 2007 11:45 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 11:45 pm

All for one, one for all!

Never give up! Never surrender!

I must watch a few more films for some catchy rhetoric

RE: Re: RE: Resistance is futile.

Dutch_Master — Sat Oct 20, 2007 11:42 pm

Author: Dutch_Master

Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 11:42 pm

What is M$ thinking? Like: we've purchased your project, so we've bought your free spare time working on it as well? Get real! If M$ buys a company with a community-based development model, the dev's will leave. Maybe not immidiately, but leave they will... To start a new, identical project, community based and therefor not for sale M$ should know by now, that no matter how much money they spend, the dev's still hold the copyright on their code, so M$ will not be able to prevent these dev's to use their code again. Besides, it's GPL'd, or another FOSS licence...

Today's M$ credo: "If you can't beat them, buy them!" But M$ will never be able to buy a community spirit, or a conviction for Open Source