Comment: Radioactove pork bomb (Score 1) 8
A great name for a band.
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A great name for a band.
So the question to the submitter is: what other outcome did you expect?
Actually, a lot of us predicted this, but were drowned out by the flood of astroturf that's overwhelming Slashdot.
This is SOP for Microsoft. They have zero interest in spending money developing new products or improving their existing lines and every interest in killing off any competition that might force them to spend that money.
We have already subsidized in a sense. We spent all the R&D costs to develop less polluting industrial processes. The developing world is free to enjoy the benefits of that.
It's another case of TANSTAAFL. Corporations decide they don't like the cost of environmental regulations in the U.S. so they try to 'export' the pollution to China. The rest figure it's OK as long as it's just Chinese people getting poisoned, so it's allowed (rather than requiring goods sold in the U.S. to be manufactured cleanly wherever it happens). Guess what?
No, it's like rejecting GUI because you don't like Microsoft and it's the only way to be sure no Microsoft was snuck in.
Now try it in an environment your nervous system did NOT evolve in.
does the operating system matter? (or is it just assumed that you want windows)
Sum quod eris.