Microsoft's fight grows larger
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Be sues Microsoft Wasn't it Shakespeare who said "kill all the lawyers"? Maybe he was right. Michael :-)
Be has 1 guy in a tiny office left. And they waited *how* long? Give me a break. I'm gonna sue Microsoft next 'cuz they didn't license LiveImage years ago and went and did their own crappy image mapping in Front Page, and locked out the market for 3rd party mapping programs. Yeah, that's the ticket. Dammit, I could have been rich, and it's all their *%#@)^ FAULT! I could have been sipping rum & coke on the beach while the Microsoft checks rolled in, but noooo.... :mad: :mad: :mad:
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What is this about? "I had a software company and I failed, so I'm sueing Microsoft"??? -- LuisR -------- Luis Alonso Ramos Chihuahua, Mexico www.luisalonsoramos.com
Bill G will be okay as long as they didn't do anything illegal. Oh... Davy http://www.LateDecember.com
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Be sues Microsoft Wasn't it Shakespeare who said "kill all the lawyers"? Maybe he was right. Michael :-)
All these lawsuits plus the fact that they have so many security issues with their products (it's a bad time to be insecure, we're in the internet age afterall) plus the fact that even they don't know where their future revenue stream will come from plus the fact that Linux's momentum just can't be stopped what with IBM and Sun and HP and Oracle backing it plus the fact that people just don't plain trust them anymore....*deep breath* All this means that Microsoft won't be around much longer. I believe the company will collapse well before I'm 60 (I'm 26). It's sad, I love the products...I'm as close to an MS cheerleader as you can get, but this is a losing battle for all intents and purposes. Regardless, you'll have to pry my Win2K/XP box from my cold dead hands when the time comes. Just my $0.02 Regards Senkwe Just another wannabe code junky
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Be sues Microsoft Wasn't it Shakespeare who said "kill all the lawyers"? Maybe he was right. Michael :-)
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Senkwe Chanda wrote: All this means that Microsoft won't be around much longer. I believe the company will collapse well before I'm 60 (I'm 26). It's sad, I love the products...I'm as close to an MS cheerleader as you can get, but this is a losing battle for all intents and purposes. Oh my, that's funny! I had to actually read that a few times to get the joke. Dry as the desert in high summer you are. Yes, time to sell Microsoft stock before it drops! But when you're just about ready for retirement, you can go and patch all the time_t bugs out there that will be ready to blow up.
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Todd C. Wilson wrote: Oh my, that's funny! I had to actually read that a few times to get the joke. Dry as the desert in high summer you are. Yes, time to sell Microsoft stock before it drops! Thus spake the non-believers. It's happening already, nothing lasts forever folks. You don't have to like it, but you must anticipate it. Well, we'll have this discussion in a few years time. Regards Senkwe Just another wannabe code junky
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All these lawsuits plus the fact that they have so many security issues with their products (it's a bad time to be insecure, we're in the internet age afterall) plus the fact that even they don't know where their future revenue stream will come from plus the fact that Linux's momentum just can't be stopped what with IBM and Sun and HP and Oracle backing it plus the fact that people just don't plain trust them anymore....*deep breath* All this means that Microsoft won't be around much longer. I believe the company will collapse well before I'm 60 (I'm 26). It's sad, I love the products...I'm as close to an MS cheerleader as you can get, but this is a losing battle for all intents and purposes. Regardless, you'll have to pry my Win2K/XP box from my cold dead hands when the time comes. Just my $0.02 Regards Senkwe Just another wannabe code junky
Senkwe Chanda wrote: All this means that Microsoft won't be around much longer. I believe the company will collapse well before I'm 60 (I'm 26). It's sad, I love the products...I'm as close to an MS cheerleader as you can get, but this is a losing battle for all intents and purposes. Oh my, that's funny! I had to actually read that a few times to get the joke. Dry as the desert in high summer you are. Yes, time to sell Microsoft stock before it drops! But when you're just about ready for retirement, you can go and patch all the time_t bugs out there that will be ready to blow up.
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Be sues Microsoft Wasn't it Shakespeare who said "kill all the lawyers"? Maybe he was right. Michael :-)
``This sort of litigation is not in the interests of consumers, nor is it good for the industry,'' Microsoft spokesman Jim Desler said, adding that ''only Microsoft knows what's best for consumers and the industry.'' (Okay, I made up the last part, but you *know* they were thinking it!) :-D
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Be sues Microsoft Wasn't it Shakespeare who said "kill all the lawyers"? Maybe he was right. Michael :-)
Michael P Butler wrote: Wasn't it Shakespeare who said "kill all the lawyers"? Maybe he was right. True, but Jesus said, "And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also." [Matt 5:40] So it comes down to whose advice you would rather take. Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and, as difficult as it is, we will still love you --- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Michael P Butler wrote: Wasn't it Shakespeare who said "kill all the lawyers"? Maybe he was right. True, but Jesus said, "And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also." [Matt 5:40] So it comes down to whose advice you would rather take. Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and, as difficult as it is, we will still love you --- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'd much rather side with Shakespeare. Whilst both Shakespeare's plays and the bible are great works of fiction, I find Will to have a better sense of humor. Michael :-)
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I'd much rather side with Shakespeare. Whilst both Shakespeare's plays and the bible are great works of fiction, I find Will to have a better sense of humor. Michael :-)
Michael P Butler wrote: Whilst both Shakespeare's plays and the bible are great works of fiction, I find Will to have a better sense of humor. I tend to think of the Bible more as a book of philosophy, but take it as you will... If you appreciate Will's humor, perhaps you'd recognize his joke in putting these words in Dick the butcher's mouth. First Dick calls for killing the lawyers as part of a people's revolution that will abolish private property so "all the realm shall be in common." Shortly thereafter Dick and his cronies want to kill anyone who can read or write. In other words, I don't think Shakespeare intended anyone to think that either of these suggestions were good things.
CADE Be brave, then; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation. There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny: the three-hooped pot; shall have ten hoops and I will make it felony to drink small beer: all the realm shall be in common; and in Cheapside shall my palfrey go to grass: and when I am king, as king I will be,-- ALL God save your majesty! CADE I thank you, good people: there shall be no money; all shall eat and drink on my score; and I will apparel them all in one livery, that they may agree like brothers and worship me their lord. DICK The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. CADE Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man? Some say the bee stings: but I say, 'tis the bee's wax; for I did but seal once to a thing, and I was never mine own man since. How now! who's there? Enter some, bringing forward the Clerk of Chatham SMITH The clerk of Chatham: he can write and read and cast accompt. CADE O monstrous! SMITH We took him setting of boys' copies. CADE Here's a villain! SMITH Has a book in his pocket with red letters in't. CADE Nay, then, he is a conjurer. DICK Nay, he can make obligations, and write court-hand. CADE I am sorry for't: the man is a proper man, of mine honour; unless I find him guilty, he shall not die. Come hither, sirrah, I must examine thee: what is thy name? Clerk Emmanuel. DICK They use to write it on the top of letters: 'twill go hard with you. CADE Let me alone. Dost thou use to write thy name? or hast thou a mark to thyself, like an honest plain-dealing man? CLERK