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Article #1484Re: KDE v. Gnome
From: jedi
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 00:00
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On 03 Oct 1998 17:30:37 +0200, Anders Wegge Jakobsen <wegge@wegge.dk> wrote: > On Sat, 3 Oct 1998 00:44:42 +0100, Jason Clifford > <jason@dlsl.demon.co.uk> said: > >JC> In article <6v33p4$jqh$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>, Bill Unruh >JC> <unruh@physics.ubc.ca> writes >>> It does so by granting a monopoly right. > >JC> Your arguement is based upon a false premise. There are no >JC> monopoly rights granted to ANY software companies. > > Oh, are you saying that no company is trying to enforce their right >to decide what I may and may not do with the software I've bought? Or >did monopoly just get redefined overnight? According to my dictionary, >a monopoly is partly defined as an entity that enforces unilateral >descisions on other entities. Most software companies that I know of >matches the criteria pretty well. I can go out and rent an F-150 or a bucket truck or a VCR or even console games on CD with little problem. However, just try to rent that same game you have for your console on CD in the PC version and just see how quicking the appropriate wing of the IP Mafia (SPA) will muscle you out and then brag about it's exploits. [deletia] -- Hardly. Microsoft has brought the microcomputer OS to the point where it is more bloated than even OSes from ||| what was previously larger classes of machines altogether. / | \ This is perhaps Bill's single greatest accomplishment. In search of sane PPP docs? Try http://penguin.lvcm.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: f4bda,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bda,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: jedi@dementia.mishnet () Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome Date: 1998/10/04 Message-ID: <slrn71fpoi.3gs.jedi@dementia.mishnet> X-Deja-AN: 397719042 References: <873e9hret2.fsf@ivm.de> <6ufkfu$o96$1@taliesin.netcom.net.uk> <87sohgzh44.fsf@ivm.de> <FWc39EA3TLD2Ewp3@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <6uipd0$oj8$1@winter.news.erols.com> <87zpbmkhdn.fsf@ivm.de> <kbCveHAOyWD2EwdN@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <Pine.SOL.3.91.980927140803.10597B-100000@howard> <m3af3knl8m.fsf@c26469-a.clnvl1.ct.home.com> <6up86o$t23$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <9nQpxDAYqKE2EwlY@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <m37lyls7gl.fsf@c26469-a.clnvl1.ct.home.com> <7W849EAptrE2EwXO@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <6uuqch$mie$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <GHjnJHASQKF2Ewpf@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <6v33p4$jqh$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <Db9muEAqVWF2EwIG@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <m3n27dmzmq.fsf@obelix.wegge.dk> X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com X-Trace: 907537373 PLBOPJC1P1FA118EAC usenet52.supernews.com Organization: http://www.supernews.com, The World's Usenet: Discussions Start Here Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss