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Childish? Just like your misinformation
Microsoft did not 'buy' the original Windows from Seattle Software but it copied the basic idead of using graphics for the interface instead of text.

You might think that MS broke copyright this, copyright that because of the old windows but they didn't copy code and they didn't copy Seattle Soft's design for the GUI.

If the wheel was patented, you'd be complaining about Dunlop or Goodyear doing that. If Seatle Soft did that with their OS, we'd have to buy extremely overpriced OSes with GUIs from them, so MS copying the idea of a GUI isn't unethnical, evil or any of the other words linux-homeboys use to describe the company.

On to the real matter, MS does indeed include WMP with Windows OSes, but they don't force people to use it by making your HD format when you run Real Media. So if people have the freedom to use whichever prog they want, what's wrong with MS doing what they do now? Another thing is that Red Hat hasn't been sued for including media progs has it?

I feel that once again, MS is being hit by this small minority which don't like Windows just because it doesn't have a logo which is comprised of an artic animal and/or that it's just more popular than the OS they use. MS, keep up the good work.
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loss of posts  samp_z | 03/22/04
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