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LD55ZRA
German Swine has manipulated my original message!
LD55ZRA wrote:
> 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 su
LD55ZRA wrote:
> 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 su