Re: Microsoft - A punitive puppeteer?

On Friday 21 September 2001 07:06 am, Bale, Dan wrote:
> Unbelievable.
>
> Windows 98se will be the last Microsoft OS on any of my home computers.
> Period.

How I wish that I could make such a guarantee. I currently run Linux at home,
but I have a program for a church project that is Windows based and my wife
has software for a business she is in that is also Windows based. Both of
these software packages are necessary and neither is available for anything
other than Linux. Not even the Mac.

Please, write to John Ashcroft, your congressmen, whoever.

> Dan Bale
> IT - AS/400
> Handleman Company
> 248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
> D.Bale@Handleman.com
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:       neilp@dpslink.com [SMTP:neilp@dpslink.com]
> > Sent:       Thursday, September 20, 2001 4:14 PM
> > To: midrange-nontech@midrange.com
> > Subject:    Microsoft - A punitive puppeteer?
> >
> > QUOTE OF THE DAY:
> >
> > "While we're on the subject of license enforcement, let me
> > throw in a term one alert reader just spotted in the license
> > for FrontPage 2002. 'You may not use the Software in
> > connection with any site that disparages Microsoft, MSN,
> > MSNBC, Expedia, or their products or services ...' the
> > license reads in part. Good thing InfoWorld doesn't use
> > FrontPage 2002 to post this column, I guess."
> >
> > --The Gripe Line columnist Ed Foster turns the spotlight on
> > some of Microoft's current business practices.
> >
> > ****  READ THE FULL ARTICLE:
> > http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/09/17/010917opfoster.xml?0
> > 920thap
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