What are the other companies alternate solutions
FilledOut | 12/30/03
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Hmmmmmm
JWatson77 | 12/31/03
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Just say NO to DRM BIOS!
InetUser_z | 01/05/04
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MS and replacing BIOS? I smell disaster.
toomuchgreeatea@... | 12/30/03
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MS and replacing BIOS? I smell disaster.
hal9000mx | 12/30/03
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Re: I need to get ready to move to the Mac World
Salman Pak | 12/31/03
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Yeah, like there's no monopoly to deal with in the Mac World.
hal9000mx | 01/01/04
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MS and replacing BIOS? I smell disaster.
ajapierce | 12/30/03
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Can You Say DRM??? Paladium???
swbobcat | 12/30/03
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Just say NO to DRM
InetUser_z | 01/05/04
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Concerns? Absolutely!
ONEstar | 12/30/03
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Concerns? Absolutely
issthatso | 12/30/03
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Yup!
Martin Marvinski | 12/30/03
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"A blackhole...
MalumRegnat | 12/30/03
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How come ZD isn't covering ISRAEL DUMPING M$ OS and Office?!?, huh?
dicktaurus@... | 12/31/03
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How come ZD isn't covering ISRAEL DUMPING M$ OS and Office?!?, huh?
hal9000mx | 01/01/04
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Heh, that's why I posted: a small reminder as to who's zoomin' who here!
dicktaurus@... | 01/01/04
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Current URLs - 1-5-04 2PM CST
Update victim | 01/05/04
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Putting the cart before the horse
Unicornrider | 01/05/04
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Come on LinuxBIOS
Chad_z | 12/30/03
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Yep
GRindinAxTaRupy | 12/30/03
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Few of us
FirstNLastN | 12/30/03
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Seriously a BIOS is tough to code. Aren't they still written in assembler?
hal9000mx | 01/01/04
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Microsoft writing BIOS
dpayne@... | 12/30/03
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Want to lose money?
vdraken | 12/30/03
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sure, it's only money!
dpayne@... | 12/30/03
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Well if you want to live in a closet..
vdraken | 12/30/03
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...then you'd suspect nothing like you are doing
GRindinAxTaRupy | 12/30/03
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Hey, you KNOW he has to be retarded or evil to kiss MonkeyBoy's arse like..
dicktaurus@... | 12/30/03
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Being cautious...
BitTwiddler | 12/30/03
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RE: sure, it's only money
ajapierce | 12/30/03
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Hmm....
jobroco | 12/30/03
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Doesant matter.
vdraken | 12/30/03
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ok
jobroco | 12/30/03
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You don't think..
GRindinAxTaRupy | 12/30/03
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M$'s XML was tainted, butthead!
dicktaurus@... | 12/30/03
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Think again
AbsolutelyNot | 12/30/03
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thinking
Suicida| | 12/31/03
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MS 'XML' is a proprietary perversion of the standards
Rick S._z | 12/30/03
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Simply not true.
No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/04/04
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RE: Hmm...
ajapierce | 12/30/03
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Yes...
BitTwiddler | 12/30/03
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MS doesnt maintain the EFI standard. Only promoting.
hal9000mx | 01/01/04
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I'll bet a gazillion dollars
GRindinAxTaRupy | 12/30/03
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Something is not right
plandy@... | 12/30/03
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Linsux is used by no one on the desktop
guitar player | 12/30/03
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Sure...
NemesisNL | 12/30/03
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Keep strumming the air dude
GRindinAxTaRupy | 12/30/03
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Re: Linsux is used by no one on the desktop
Martin Marvinski | 12/30/03
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Didn't China Go Linux on ton of desktops
voska | 12/30/03
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The Problem is
ShadeTree | 12/30/03
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Re: The Problem is
Martin Marvinski | 12/31/03
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Read the post prior to mine.
ShadeTree | 12/31/03
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China bought one and installed it on all those desktops.
hal9000mx | 01/01/04
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40,000 desktops at Ford Europe
B.O.F.H. | 12/30/03
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I'd have agreed with you 5 years ago
voska | 12/30/03
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Ever hear of Burlington Industries?
Update victim | 12/30/03
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Windows strenght in numbers?
lesk | 12/31/03
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OS's for dummies
Suicida| | 01/01/04
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There are more cockroaches on earth than people
hal9000mx | 01/01/04
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No mention of "trusted computing"
FlyGuy70 | 12/30/03
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That because EVERYONE trusts them already silly
GRindinAxTaRupy | 12/30/03
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Where's the TRUST
JWatson77 | 12/30/03
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EFI was used in Itanium
Mike Cox | 12/30/03
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Wait....
slopoke | 12/30/03
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It must be the holidays
AbsolutelyNot | 12/30/03
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Present?
Martin Marvinski | 12/30/03
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Probably just forgot which signon he was using
WhoIsDaMan | 12/30/03
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Go Mikey!
GRindinAxTaRupy | 12/30/03
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Identity theft
Mike Cox | 12/30/03
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Puching Back Won't Work!!
ShadeTree | 12/30/03
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EFI is good an will be highly successful
George Mitchell | 12/30/03
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It's not the EFI that's the problem
AbsolutelyNot | 12/30/03
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Wait a minute ... are you for open? or do you favor closed?
George Mitchell | 12/30/03
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Your naivete' in the face of M$ malevolence is charming, but. 20 years...
dicktaurus@... | 01/02/04
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And you, sir, are beating a dead horse!
George Mitchell | 01/02/04
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EFI isn't simplifying
Nigel Johnstone | 12/30/03
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Technically incorrect!
ShadeTree | 12/30/03
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Technically incorrect!...but then again
Nigel Johnstone | 12/30/03
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Initialize memory and hard drive?
Update victim | 12/30/03
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You could put linux on it
Nigel Johnstone | 12/30/03
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It is in Linux
Suicida| | 12/31/03
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This is not about simplicity v complexity ...
George Mitchell | 12/30/03
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There's nothing wrong with the BIOS
BitTwiddler | 12/30/03
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Really?
George Mitchell | 12/30/03
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oh really
JWatson77 | 12/31/03
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WinBIOS?
George Mitchell | 12/31/03
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the fact is
JWatson77 | 12/31/03
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The fact is you are uneducated
Suicida| | 01/01/04
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?
Martin Marvinski | 12/30/03
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Most problems traced to BIOS
ShadeTree | 12/30/03
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Most problems traced to BIOS
JWatson77 | 12/31/03
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Intelligent post
John Carroll | 12/30/03
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I recognize revolutionary technology when I see it ...
George Mitchell | 12/30/03
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knee jerk?
JWatson77 | 12/31/03
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Defending our freedom ...
George Mitchell | 12/31/03
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You're on a roll...
John Carroll | 12/31/03
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The MS stock price tells the story John
George Mitchell | 12/31/03
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DRM is fine
JWatson77 | 12/31/03
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Spyware doesn't require DRM
George Mitchell | 12/31/03
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Microsoft One Day's Schedule
hal9000mx | 01/01/04
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Freudian slip there John?
Aphelion | 12/31/03
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Wow, already broken down into name calling
FilledOut | 12/30/03
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What else?
pschroeder@... | 12/30/03
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we all know what smells
JWatson77 | 12/30/03
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and hopefully
JWatson77 | 12/31/03
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I can't be the only one...
BitTwiddler | 12/30/03
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the startup is only a small part of what they want to control
JWatson77 | 12/30/03
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really?
Suicida| | 01/01/04
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It is about time!!!
ShadeTree | 12/30/03
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Who do you trust?
plandy@... | 12/30/03
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You have that Choice!
ShadeTree | 12/30/03
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Opt out or decline?
plandy@... | 12/30/03
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Like it or Not.
ShadeTree | 12/30/03
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Submit to force feeding?
plandy@... | 12/30/03
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A bit naive.
ShadeTree | 12/30/03
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(NT) Yikes! You sound a bit like Bit! Happy New Year anyway :o)
Jack-Booted EULA | 12/31/03
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Just a realist.
ShadeTree | 12/31/03
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BUT...
JWatson77 | 12/30/03
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Not Microsoft driving..
ShadeTree | 12/31/03
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Nope
JWatson77 | 12/31/03
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Opt Out? Yeah, maybe now...
Rekrul | 12/31/03
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No evidence of this
ShadeTree | 12/31/03
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manditory?
JWatson77 | 12/31/03
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Hidden Agenda by Microsoft
RobertoSalazar | 12/30/03
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extend and break
JWatson77 | 12/30/03
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Why does Microsuck's use the word "innovation"
realitycheck101 | 12/30/03
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MS Cannot Be Trusted With BIOS
brenthawkinsmd | 12/30/03
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ACPI turned the keys over to the OS
ShadeTree | 12/30/03
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Poo Poo
jnonneman | 12/30/03
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I SMELL DRM
JWatson77 | 12/30/03
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MS can't get its own software to work properly
data-ware@... | 12/30/03
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DRM doesn't work
JWatson77 | 12/30/03
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Off Track
ShadeTree | 12/31/03
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Re : Off Track
JWatson77 | 12/31/03
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Both can be accomplished with the current BIOS
hal9000mx | 01/01/04
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(NT) Neither did Windows 1.0
Update victim | 01/02/04
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re :BIOS biography enters final chapter
JWatson77 | 12/31/03
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Whatever
ParadigmOdyssey | 12/31/03
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didn't ibm do this once
JWatson77 | 12/31/03
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Shortage of assembler engineers?!!
Eggs Ackley_z | 12/31/03
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The future...
Rekrul | 12/31/03
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Microsoft and low level hardware control = DISASTER
zin_gerr@... | 12/31/03
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Where does it say MSBIOS?
Suicida| | 12/31/03
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Do you even run linux ?
zin_gerr@... | 12/31/03
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Well, he obviously doesn't run Debian
George Mitchell | 12/31/03
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DOS was pretty stable
Suicida| | 01/01/04
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and yes I run gentoo
Suicida| | 01/01/04
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Hobbyists != System Administrators
Knorthern Knight | 01/01/04
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Win-modems; then Win-printers; Is Win-BIOS next?
Knorthern Knight | 12/31/03
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Im sure he would
Suicida| | 12/31/03
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Hey Bill Gates! Eat your heart out man!
George Mitchell | 12/31/03
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MS looking to expand, even to hardware
FilledOut | 01/01/04
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Proprietary products are self limiting ...
George Mitchell | 01/01/04
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Open solutions are changing many markets
FilledOut | 01/01/04
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As long as you bribe them.
No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/04/04
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MS has a lot more power than IBM
Knorthern Knight | 01/01/04
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Old news
rapson | 01/02/04
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In your mind dude ...
George Mitchell | 01/02/04
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IBM is *NOT* a software-only company
Knorthern Knight | 01/01/04
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I apologize for seemingly limiting IBM's scope
FilledOut | 01/02/04
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True, they are a Linux bribery machine.
No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/04/04
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Did ya read the whole story
Squawkbox | 01/04/04
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Microsoft has just recognised the benefit and wishes to join the game.
hal9000mx | 01/01/04
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They must be plotting something evil ...
George Mitchell | 01/01/04
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My, what a collection of posts.
No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/01/04
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It gets pretty insane ...
George Mitchell | 01/01/04
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Sadly, you are right...
No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/01/04
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Watch what happens next.
No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/01/04
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I'm back and you and I agree buhwahaahaha
Squawkbox | 01/02/04
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Rewritting history???
Don Senzig | 01/01/04
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Lets do them one better
supoman | 01/02/04
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Been done, Remember Commodore.
Update victim | 01/02/04
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who do you think bill wanted to win, when he read 1984
JWatson77 | 01/03/04
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End of BIOS and your choice
msdead | 01/05/04
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