for just this once, i'm on microsofts side

qanopus · 10-09-2003, 05:46 AM

Don't get me wrong though, I still hope the company crashes and burns. But when it comes to the ms vs Eolas case, i'm on the side of ms.
That's the reason why many are so against software patents.

ocularbob · 10-09-2003, 06:36 AM

well im not really on ms' side, but i'm sure not for those other guys!
anyone have a patent on the use of variables in software?

qanopus · 10-09-2003, 07:38 AM

Well, today it's IE. Why not mozilla or konquoror tomorrow? M$ can afford to bey an licence. The same cannot be said about open source developers

Tarts · 10-09-2003, 09:23 AM

I don't know why any company would want to lay claim to anything akin to ActiveX...(who's idea was that...really?)

I'm interested to see what they do to IE to get it to conform and will they finish in the time they tell their customer's?

slakmagik · 10-09-2003, 11:16 AM

Totally OT but Tarts, Neuromancer came out in 1984. Burning Chrome and Count Zero were 1986. And, while I'm at it, it's:

"Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts...A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding..."

Sorry. I just couldn't stop myself but it won't happen again. *g*

-- I copied it from a website to save typing but the website was wrong in a couple of places. I edited it from my book. *Now* I'm done.

Tarts · 10-11-2003, 05:55 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by digiot
Totally OT but Tarts, Neuromancer came out in 1984. Burning Chrome and Count Zero were 1986. And, while I'm at it, it's:

"Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts...A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding..."

Sorry. I just couldn't stop myself but it won't happen again. *g*

-- I copied it from a website to save typing but the website was wrong in a couple of places. I edited it from my book. *Now* I'm done.

Oh, Apoligies, it's fixed now.

Tarts