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1. Comment - Windows Veteran Jumps Ship to Google

   (Mar 3, 2005 - 11:09 PM)

   maybe it slipped through a hole in the code?

2. Comment - Microsoft Wins Appeal in Eolas Suit

   (Mar 3, 2005 - 9:09 PM)

   "Pei-yuan Wei and his colleagues at O'Reilly and Associates...are the true pioneers of this technology."
   
   The question is, did either Microsoft or Eolas attempt to licence the technology from Pei-yuan Wei and his colleagues?
   
   Eolas may have. Historically it looks likely (on the surface) that MS may not have.
   
   And 1994, I didn't think that MS even had an Internet Explorer in existence then. I was running Netscape 2 and Eudora 1.4 for mail at that time. Admittedly I'm typing this in an MSIE window right now, but this machine is light on on third party apps apart from apache.
   
   Will be interesting to follow this one. I don't think MS would have been thinking all along that someone else invented it like the reworked petition sounds, though; history shows a remarkable lack of concern about copyrights other people hold.
   
   Now if MS had actually developed it, they would have had it patented before the code was written, like their publicity on many things - such as Longhorn, lol!

3. Comment - Bill Gates Knighted by Queen Elizabeth

   (Mar 3, 2005 - 8:47 PM)

   ummm I think the key to this is whether or not you believe that "the end justifies the means".
   
   In other words doesn't matter if you do bad things as long as what you score as a result you give some away to make yourself look good.
   
   I don't believe that.
   
   If it's earned unethically, then donations from it are tarred with the same brush. If you run a charity, I don't believe you should accept any donations from someone whose unrepentant activities are offered as a donation.
   
   Regarding whether folk use MS Windows (please note, it isn't "Windows" because that is a generic term) or Linux, Linux comes in degrees of hardness or difficulty.
   
   I use both on my home LAN because there are some applications which aren't ported to Linux, or won't work within WINE (probably because APIs haven't being published by MS, contrary to the instructions they received from the judge... something else illegal).
   
   I choose to use several easily used Linux distros because an old duffer of 70 hasn't the time nor inclination to work under the hood.
   
   SuSE and Linspire are my favourites. I like Ubuntu as well.