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    Douglas Troy
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    eWeek Article[^] O.k., so what gives with this move? What is Bill up to now? Anyone have any, emmm, "insight" into this news? D.

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      eWeek Article[^] O.k., so what gives with this move? What is Bill up to now? Anyone have any, emmm, "insight" into this news? D.

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      peterchen
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      Stephane will probably tell you that it's yet another attempt of Bill to dominate a market, crush competition, and push proprietary extensions down the consumer's throat :cool:


      "Der Geist des Kriegers ist erwacht / Ich hab die Macht" StS
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        Stephane will probably tell you that it's yet another attempt of Bill to dominate a market, crush competition, and push proprietary extensions down the consumer's throat :cool:


        "Der Geist des Kriegers ist erwacht / Ich hab die Macht" StS
        sighist | Agile Programming | doxygen

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        Lost User
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        peterchen wrote: Stephane will probably tell you that it's yet another attempt of Bill to dominate a market, crush competition, and push proprietary extensions down the consumer's throat :cool: He'd have a 93.5934567241974% chance of being right too. Michael Martin Australia "I personally love it because I can get as down and dirty as I want on the backend, while also being able to dabble with fun scripting and presentation games on the front end." - Chris Maunder 15/07/2002

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          Stephane will probably tell you that it's yet another attempt of Bill to dominate a market, crush competition, and push proprietary extensions down the consumer's throat :cool:


          "Der Geist des Kriegers ist erwacht / Ich hab die Macht" StS
          sighist | Agile Programming | doxygen

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          Daniel Turini
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          peterchen wrote: Stephane will probably tell you that it's yet another attempt of Bill to dominate a market, crush competition, and push proprietary extensions down the consumer's throat Only that he probably will be more verbose and use more '!' chars.

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            eWeek Article[^] O.k., so what gives with this move? What is Bill up to now? Anyone have any, emmm, "insight" into this news? D.

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            Shog9 0
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            Douglas Troy wrote: what gives with this move? For some reason, i suspect it's yet another attempt of Bill to dominate a market, crush competition, and push proprietary extensions down the consumer's throat... But can't be sure if that's because Peter planted the thought in my head, or just because that's what Microsoft does, day in day out, in every market they have entered or think they might want to enter. :rolleyes:

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              peterchen wrote: Stephane will probably tell you that it's yet another attempt of Bill to dominate a market, crush competition, and push proprietary extensions down the consumer's throat Only that he probably will be more verbose and use more '!' chars.

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              Kannan Kalyanaraman
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              You forgot to mention his eye-hurting sig. :-) - Kannan

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                eWeek Article[^] O.k., so what gives with this move? What is Bill up to now? Anyone have any, emmm, "insight" into this news? D.

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                berndg
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                OK I might not be a leading head in XML development, and I might not be well-known, but offers will be gratefully accepted and curiously inspected. Bernd :-D

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                • D Douglas Troy

                  eWeek Article[^] O.k., so what gives with this move? What is Bill up to now? Anyone have any, emmm, "insight" into this news? D.

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                  Stephane Rodriguez
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                  I would hate to be that developer. He was doing intense and innovative things to promote a universal protocol, and now he's ligotated with no right to speak. MS has just hired someone active in the web services arena. Someone that would otherwise do harm for the control of the web service specs, especially when you know the tension between the two proposals : Sun's, Microsoft's. If web services don't catch up fast enough, Microsoft is going to lose money, and become irrelevant. Taking advantage of InternetExplorer to steal user's name and password. Taking advantage of InternetExplorer to steal user's clipboard.

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                    eWeek Article[^] O.k., so what gives with this move? What is Bill up to now? Anyone have any, emmm, "insight" into this news? D.

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                    Member 96
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                    I say good on them (microsoft), why buy a company when you can buy the people? Never made sense to me why they did that. They are spending waaayyy too much time worrying about what their detractors might think and not enough time innovating, hopefully they will get back to that. How it is that there are so many anti-capitalists here is beyond me, where does your pay check come from? They don't grow on "happy trees" you know.;P ------------

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                      You forgot to mention his eye-hurting sig. :-) - Kannan

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                      David Stone
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                      You mean the big X over the IE symbol? I don't think it's "eye-hurting"...I just think it's very reflective of Stephane's character... :rolleyes:


                      I have also lived some years in Spain, and there people don't accept that you speak bad spanish. I usually compensate by speaking loud and accusing people of being stupid because they don't understand me. It usually works quite well. -jhaga on non-native languages

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                        You mean the big X over the IE symbol? I don't think it's "eye-hurting"...I just think it's very reflective of Stephane's character... :rolleyes:


                        I have also lived some years in Spain, and there people don't accept that you speak bad spanish. I usually compensate by speaking loud and accusing people of being stupid because they don't understand me. It usually works quite well. -jhaga on non-native languages

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                        David Wulff
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                        David Stone wrote: I don't think it's "eye-hurting"... It is on a bright LCD in low light. Very.


                        David Wulff

                        Not all teenagers smoke and drink. I gave up smoking years ago.

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                          I say good on them (microsoft), why buy a company when you can buy the people? Never made sense to me why they did that. They are spending waaayyy too much time worrying about what their detractors might think and not enough time innovating, hopefully they will get back to that. How it is that there are so many anti-capitalists here is beyond me, where does your pay check come from? They don't grow on "happy trees" you know.;P ------------

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                          Martin Cook
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                          What? :omg: But the guy I bought my magic beans from assured me that money grows that way! Does this mean I should stop watering my beans and get a job? :-D Martin Cook Who needs cyberspace when you have CP space? :)

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                            David Stone wrote: I don't think it's "eye-hurting"... It is on a bright LCD in low light. Very.


                            David Wulff

                            Not all teenagers smoke and drink. I gave up smoking years ago.

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                            David Stone
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                            I've got a bright LCD and regularly work in low light Dave...;P


                            Conclusion of the day, don't believe a developer, his mind is always changing. -Stephane Rodriguez.

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                              You forgot to mention his eye-hurting sig. :-) - Kannan

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                              Shog9 0
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                              Kannan Kalyanaraman wrote: You forgot to mention his eye-hurting sig. Yeah, such a nice X-over-IE, ruined by the failure to adopt CP's shade of blue for the background...

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                                David Stone wrote: I don't think it's "eye-hurting"... It is on a bright LCD in low light. Very.


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                                Not all teenagers smoke and drink. I gave up smoking years ago.

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                                Shog9 0
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                                You left out the "after a night of hard drinking" bit, David... ;)

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                                  You left out the "after a night of hard drinking" bit, David... ;)

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                                  David Wulff
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                                  I thought that was assumed? ;) :-O


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                                    eWeek Article[^] O.k., so what gives with this move? What is Bill up to now? Anyone have any, emmm, "insight" into this news? D.

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                                    Brian Delahunty
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                                    Douglas Troy wrote: so what gives with this move? Eh.. the want to have a lot of the best people for the newest and fastest growing web technology? Regards, Brian Dela :-)

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                                      Stephane will probably tell you that it's yet another attempt of Bill to dominate a market, crush competition, and push proprietary extensions down the consumer's throat :cool:


                                      "Der Geist des Kriegers ist erwacht / Ich hab die Macht" StS
                                      sighist | Agile Programming | doxygen

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                                      Rohit Sinha
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                                      I object to your making fun of him while he's not looking. If you don't agree with his views, please either reply to him or silently, anonymously, vote him a 1, or whatever and be done with it. He feels seriously about some issues and shares it with all of us. It's up to us to accept or reject it. But I don't think a ridicule in someone else's thread is in order here.
                                      Regards,

                                      Rohit Sinha

                                      Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
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                                        I object to your making fun of him while he's not looking. If you don't agree with his views, please either reply to him or silently, anonymously, vote him a 1, or whatever and be done with it. He feels seriously about some issues and shares it with all of us. It's up to us to accept or reject it. But I don't think a ridicule in someone else's thread is in order here.
                                        Regards,

                                        Rohit Sinha

                                        Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
                                        - Mother Teresa

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                                        Stephane Rodriguez
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                                        He knows I am lurking around. :-D Taking advantage of InternetExplorer to steal user's name and password. Taking advantage of InternetExplorer to steal user's clipboard.

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                                          I object to your making fun of him while he's not looking. If you don't agree with his views, please either reply to him or silently, anonymously, vote him a 1, or whatever and be done with it. He feels seriously about some issues and shares it with all of us. It's up to us to accept or reject it. But I don't think a ridicule in someone else's thread is in order here.
                                          Regards,

                                          Rohit Sinha

                                          Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
                                          - Mother Teresa

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                                          peterchen
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                                          I already replied to him non-silently on this topic, I was sure he would pick up on the topic, and I was hoping he would take it in a good mood. And - it was just my initiali thought "Oh, Stephane will like it"...


                                          "Der Geist des Kriegers ist erwacht / Ich hab die Macht" StS
                                          sighist | Agile Programming | doxygen

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