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Comment Dupe: posted previoulsy by kdawson! (Score 2, Informative) 395

by porsche922 on Monday October 26, 2009 @11:45AM (#29873137) Attached to: Microsoft Freeloading In Washington State Courts

What M$ is doing in not right but is not illegal apparently. so for any thing to happen the law needs to be changed. and I believe this guy has been trying to do this for years for this story has been posted several times on slashdot, with hundreds of comments on each post with same gist. http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/09/22/225233/Microsoft-Tax-Dodge-At-Issue-In-Washington-State (Sept 22, 09) http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/04/1520219 (Feb 04, 08) and http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/01/2137228 (Oct 01, 04)

Comment print url (Score 2, Informative) 130

by porsche922 on Thursday November 30, 2006 @01:44PM (#17051684) Attached to: AMD QuadFX Platform and FX-70 Series Launched

http://www.hothardware.com/printarticle.aspx?artic leid=911

Is the Microsoft/Novell Deal a Litigation Bomb? 342

Posted by Zonk on Friday November 03, 2006 @04:46PM from the pengui-bomb dept.

mpapet writes "According to WINE developer Tom Wickline, the Microsoft/Novell deal for Suse support may one day control commercial customers' use of Free Software. Is this the end of commercial OSS developers who are not a part of the Microsoft/Suse pact?" From the article: "Wickline said that the pact means that there will now be a Microsoft-blessed path for such people to make use of Open Source ... 'A logical next move for Microsoft could be to crack down on 'unlicensed Linux' and 'unlicensed Free Software,' now that it can tell the courts that there is a Microsoft-licensed path. Or they can just passively let that threat stay there as a deterrent to anyone who would use Open Source without going through the Microsoft-approved Novell path,' Wickline said." Bruce Perens dropped a line to point out that most of the content actually comes from his post.

Vista Runs Hot on Macbook Pro 214

Posted by Zonk on Sunday September 10, 2006 @07:33PM from the sweaty-legs dept.

PetManimal writes "Ken Mingis, Computerworld's Mac editor, has given Vista a spin on his Macbook Pro in order to review and compare hardware performance with OS X. It's not a rigorous benchmarking, but he does notice a few issues relating to power consumption: 'Since installing Vista, I have found that my MacBook Pro runs hot. No doubt Microsoft hasn't worked on power management issues that might affect Apple hardware, which leaves me to wonder whether I'm slowly cooking the motherboard of my laptop. It's not hot enough to fry an egg on the aluminum case, but my laptop is noticeably warmer than when I use Mac OS X. I've also noticed that battery life is substantially reduced. Once again, energy management for Apple hardware is not likely at the top of Microsoft's list. Once Apple writes updated drivers to work with Vista, I'd expect these issues to be addressed.'"

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