Not quite. Windows 95 shipped without TCP/IP and it required the Plus-pack (which TBF was included in many OEM-versions) with Internet Explorer 1.0 to get a TCP/IP stack installed (or install third party software, like Netscape Navigator). Also Windows 3.11 for Workgroups got a TCP/IP add-on pack from Microsoft before Windows 95 was released. Microsoft eventually bundled their TCP/IP stack with Windows 95 in Service Pack 1 which also came with Internet Explorer 2.0.

Should have a prominent big red self destruct button. This button should not do anything, and it should be booby trapped.

Every time I see a news item about supersymmetry, it always seems to be disproving it. Seems like the only thing the hypothesis has going for it is the universe would make a lot more elegantly designed if it was true. It seems like mostly wishful thinking to me.

What do people that have contributed to the code base get? Who is getting money for this? I don't understand how you can go from an opensource project to a for-profit project.

With open source you let people use your code, and they let others - including you - use their code in turn. That's the payment, if you will. If you contributed to CM, then the availability of the rest of the CM codebase under a compatible license is what you get.

As for profits - nothing stops you from taking the rest of the CM code base and trying to make it a business, in the same way the CM devels are doing now. And if you do, you won't have to pay the CM developers (or the kernel devels, or user-space tool developers and so on) any more than they have to pay you.

They will send us a sternly worded note stating that we really should pay attention to their... *yawn*.... sorry...

Now if you want to make it interesting, mandate that the case be made out of C4 and make the kill switch an actual kill switch! When someone in law enforcement pushes it, the user explodes! That'd make the daily commute a lot more interesting!

He should have had Alta Vista, USENET NEWS and IRC.

These successors have only made scads of money off ideas from real pioneers.

Screwing up so bad they made Apple look amazingly good.

Only in comics, man, only in the comics. Real world reporters on crime-beat tend to blame society now, it's the PC thing to do.

His successor will have been a *cough* former *cough* employee of Microsoft, Apple or someone else you "can" trust.

I see what you did there.

Freedom and Patriotism have various definitions, depends upon whom you ask.

No, you need to blame the idiots who are so cavalier with their phones. I'm amazed how many I find on trails or in the middle of roads.

Quite so. Quite so.

Incoming text: Send me $100 dollars or I'll freeze your phone.