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Whatever may be the case, Microsoft is a thief and it should be forced
to install PGA - Patent Genuine Advantage just like you and me are
required to install WGA - Windows Genuine Advantage.
There must be a mechanism to curb Microsoft's temptation to pirate
somebody's patent.
hth
vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
>Before OS/2 I liked MS. I had an MS-DOS-Generic (no-bitmap, no IBM compat)
>80186 and Microsoft went out of their way to be helpful.
>I also ran Multiplan on that Ampro 2210 with an HP2621a terminal.
>
>I joke about it, but it feels like this is true: when MS did biz with
>IBM on OS/2 it was almost like IBM body snatched MS and IBM died - IBM
>since then is a very different firm, and MS acts like the old IBM did.
>
>I also feel the venture capital industry badly distorted itself after
>the MS IPO. Before that you got a quarter million in VC and sold the
>company to a larger firm two years later, which is much more humane
>for the mad scientist entrepreneurs.
>
>American hardware always overcompensated in those days. Serial ports
>had a fanout of five, but the Japanese products would only tolerate
>one. Standards and compatibility became obsolete. The So-called
>Japanese model foisted on us in the mid 1980s was a disaster. It had
>nothing to do with the traditional American capitalism.
>
> - = -
> Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist
> http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm http://www.facebook.com/vasjpan2
> ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}---
> [Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards]
> [Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Phooey on GUI: Windows for subprime Bimbos]
>
>
>
>
>
to install PGA - Patent Genuine Advantage just like you and me are
required to install WGA - Windows Genuine Advantage.
There must be a mechanism to curb Microsoft's temptation to pirate
somebody's patent.
hth
vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
>Before OS/2 I liked MS. I had an MS-DOS-Generic (no-bitmap, no IBM compat)
>80186 and Microsoft went out of their way to be helpful.
>I also ran Multiplan on that Ampro 2210 with an HP2621a terminal.
>
>I joke about it, but it feels like this is true: when MS did biz with
>IBM on OS/2 it was almost like IBM body snatched MS and IBM died - IBM
>since then is a very different firm, and MS acts like the old IBM did.
>
>I also feel the venture capital industry badly distorted itself after
>the MS IPO. Before that you got a quarter million in VC and sold the
>company to a larger firm two years later, which is much more humane
>for the mad scientist entrepreneurs.
>
>American hardware always overcompensated in those days. Serial ports
>had a fanout of five, but the Japanese products would only tolerate
>one. Standards and compatibility became obsolete. The So-called
>Japanese model foisted on us in the mid 1980s was a disaster. It had
>nothing to do with the traditional American capitalism.
>
> - = -
> Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist
> http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm http://www.facebook.com/vasjpan2
> ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}---
> [Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards]
> [Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Phooey on GUI: Windows for subprime Bimbos]
>
>
>
>
>