non's Journal: on the MS-Novell thing

for some reason this post doesn't show up in my comment history so i decided to enter it here as well.

  by non (130182) on 18-11-06 8:28 (#16894414)
(http://slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: 11-09-03 13:16)

all of you folks are on the right thread (as if anyone here could be on the wrong thread in this discussion; you can't be, unless you're a TROLL!). the only link i could possibly provide here for both levity and accuracy is a post i saw some years back, at the point when Microsoft 'got' the web, ie. had decided to purchase... damn, what was that browser called again? i'm joking, i had friends working for spyglass at the time.

anyway, the article pointed out that what MS, and by extension, BG, really wanted, more than anything else, was a dime, or even a penny, for every transaction conducted on the internet. full stop. as if they owned it or something (where did that NT network code come from again?). the day that MS 'owns' the internet is the day you can pry my cold dead ip stack from out of my buffer! there was another article, this one in the slashdot era, that occupied itself with the last non-windows user on earth. both probably exist in the wayback machine, and i'm surprised no one has yet seen fit to include them here.

i really hate to bring politics up in such an emotionally charged forum, but here it goes...
"all you fuckers who really believe that a 'free market' is the best thing for the common good, go stand up against that wall with all the MS execs."

drum roll, please...

there is *nothing* new about this pitch. nothing whatsoever. it is a variation of the same old tired "if you're not paying for windows then you're using an illegal copy" shtick. enough of this shit! lets put some teeth back into antitrust settlements, and straighten out the USPTO while we're at it. you'd be surprised how many high friends in high places we really have...
-- ...vividly encapsulates that post-Watergate/pre-punk/coked-up moment when you could trust no one, least of all yourself.