From the makers of $$ OS, get yours FREE!!

witeshark · 03-10-2004, 01:43 PM

For all the greed of M$, here is A neat twist and quick response!

SciYro · 03-10-2004, 06:14 PM

well, this one one of the stupidest moves M$ made in a long time, (besides "making" "software"), comon, who they trying to kid?, do they expect us to think its a coinsidence that they gave away free software to the government and its employes right when its looking at more anti-trust violations?

witeshark · 03-10-2004, 06:28 PM

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Originally posted by SciYro
well, this one one of the stupidest moves M$ made in a long time, (besides "making" "software"), comon, who they trying to kid?, do they expect us to think its a coinsidence that they gave away free software to the government and its employes right when its looking at more anti-trust violations?

Exactly!

Corvus · 03-10-2004, 06:47 PM

Where's my free of oblications product??

If that isn't almost blantant in offering a bribe I don't know what is.
As to free of obligations.. They still have to agree to the software's legal crap as soon as they open the software.

humm.. Perhaps that was a free obligation to tell anyone about it?

Corvus · 03-10-2004, 06:55 PM

something else too..

I wounder if those version(s) are just for gov. employees?

Do these 'versions' have something 'special' within them? I don't see M$ giving away anything for free.

Makes one wounder. But that could be just me.

SciYro · 03-10-2004, 07:16 PM

i do believe governments can get special versons of M$ stuff, but its not what is extra as is what is not included: they probly dont include all the back doors they have in comercial versons

Corvus · 03-10-2004, 07:45 PM

I was figuring on more. But then for Office it isn't needed.

thegeekster · 03-10-2004, 10:52 PM

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Originally posted by Corvus
something else too..

I wounder if those version(s) are just for gov. employees?

Do these 'versions' have something 'special' within them? I don't see M$ giving away anything for free.

Makes one wounder. But that could be just me.

It only costs M$ pennies to mass-produce the software, in which they charge outrageous prices............This is the same tactic M$ used to force the Netscape browser to go under, by giving it away.................They'll do anything and everything they can to maintain their monopoly....

witeshark · 03-10-2004, 11:00 PM

Yeah. But with things going on like it is now (yet another outlook FLAW!) I don't think M$ long term is a real likely thing.

/home/kyle · 03-11-2004, 08:09 AM

I dont like how you guys put bill gates and microsoft down, he is smarter then any one of you here, and he is making more money then any of you could dream of. Microsoft is a top knotch comapny, and its software is top knotch software, everything they sell is worth every penny.

thegeekster · 03-11-2004, 09:01 AM

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Originally posted by /home/kyle
I dont like how you guys put bill gates and microsoft down, he is smarter then any one of you here, and he is making more money then any of you could dream of. Microsoft is a top knotch comapny, and its software is top knotch software, everything they sell is worth every penny.

Sure Bill Gates is smart.......................doesn't necessarily mean he's the good guy......................

As for his "topnotch" company.....................

quietguy47 · 03-11-2004, 09:40 AM

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knotch

notch?

frieza · 03-11-2004, 10:36 AM

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Originally posted by /home/kyle
I dont like how you guys put bill gates and microsoft down, he is smarter then any one of you here, and he is making more money then any of you could dream of. Microsoft is a top knotch comapny, and its software is top knotch software, everything they sell is worth every penny.

everything they sell is worth every penny? i wouldn't go quite THAT far... why do you think so many people HATE it then? yes he's smart, but then again so was the lawyer that got OJ simspon off

Corvus · 03-11-2004, 11:04 AM

If M$ was so top notch, theor products wouldn't be released with so many stupid bugs. 95 wouldn't have been released for another 6 months. ME wouldn't have been released at all.

As far as Bill goes. He has some smarts or no one would know who he even is. But remember this, MS-DOS wasn't even his to begin with. He bought it off of some shmuck that had no idea what he had developed - atleast no idea how to market it. And that is just what M$ does - Market their products. (reminds me of a particular chip manufacture))

/home/kyle · 03-11-2004, 11:58 AM

Look, bill gates didn't know things were gonna turn out like they did, he was just doing what he loved to to. You guys act like cus you use linux you have to hate him or somthin, he is a good guy, I think you people are sick, with ur "Ohh, im a linux user, screw microsoft, windows is only about money, blah blah blah", you sound like a bunch of idiots. I think with you guys using Linux, you think you HAVE to hate him...Like, its some kinda sterotype, where if someone uses Linux, they hate microsoft.

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@ corvus
Look man, do you know what an update is? I have been using windows XP Pro since about a month it came out, and befor that, win2k, and 98 and ME, it was buggy at first...but after I download the UPDATES for it when they came out, the bugs gradualy went away, untill... POOF, no more bugs!.
I dont know what you are talkin about ME shouldent have not been realeased, for me it was one of the most stable Windows operating systems.
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Bill gates was a poor kid with no friends, now hes one of the richest and smartest people alive. He didnt sit down and do what he did cus he thought he was gonna get money for it, he was just having fun, doing what he liked to do. Its a shame for you guys to put him down. It just says how immature you all are.

@ quietguy47
Haha, yes I meant notch*, there is no such word..(knotch)... typo.