IE7 May Be Illegal

Pe wrote:

As the Vista license clearly states, you buy a license you dont own
anything. I guess this is our future.

Oh no it's not - not for the discerning it's not.


Registered Linux User no 240308
to email me invalidate the invalid!

troll
1. v.,n. [From the Usenet group alt.folklore.urban] To utter a posting on
Usenet designed to attract predictable responses or flames; or, the post
itself. Derives from the phrase “trolling for newbies” which in turn comes
from mainstream “trolling”, a style of fishing in which one trails bait
through a likely spot hoping for a bite. The well-constructed troll is a
post that induces lots of newbies and flamers to make themselves look even
more clueless than they already do, while subtly conveying to the more savvy
and experienced that it is in fact a deliberate troll. If you don't fall for
the joke, you get to be in on it. See also YHBT.

2. n. An individual who chronically trolls in sense 1; regularly posts
specious arguments, flames or personal attacks to a newsgroup, discussion
list, or in email for no other purpose than to annoy someone or disrupt a
discussion. Trolls are recognizable by the fact that they have no real
interest in learning about the topic at hand - they simply want to utter
flame bait. Like the ugly creatures they are named after, they exhibit no
redeeming characteristics, and as such, they are recognized as a lower form
of life on the net, as in, “Oh, ignore him, he's just a troll.” Compare
kook.

3. n. [Berkeley] Computer lab monitor. A popular campus job for CS students.
Duties include helping newbies and ensuring that lab policies are followed.
Probably so-called because it involves lurking in dark cavelike corners.

Some people claim that the troll (sense 1) is properly a narrower category
than flame bait, that a troll is categorized by containing some assertion
that is wrong but not overtly controversial. See also Troll-O-Meter.

The use of ‘troll’ in any of these senses is a live metaphor that readily
produces elaborations and combining forms. For example, one not infrequently
sees the warning “Do not feed the troll” as part of a followup to troll
postings.




"Pe" escribió en el mensaje
news:%

IE7 does something no other piece of software has ever done in the history
of computers.

It forces the user to verify the authenticity of a completely separate
piece of software, the Operating System before it will install itself.

Now, this may seem logical from an anti piracy standpoint as a monopolist.
But ask yourself, if you would agree to validate every piece of MS
software
when you installed it against every other piece of software you own
including the OS.

Given the global legal punishment that was meted out on MS for insisting
that IE "could not be separated from the OS" in its drive to kill off
competition, this is quite a randy, flirtatious thumb to the courts of the
world.

Im not sure it is even possible to prosecute against, nor defend oneself
from dependencies among software licenses which make MS again very shrewd
and also very stupid at the same time.

Add DRM to the picture and you see where MS is headed, use their tools to
do anything and you will be quite the licensee indeed.
As the Vista license clearly states, you buy a license you dont own
anything. I guess this is our future.

Its really a great indication of the direction of the industry when new
products are really just stalking horses for more legal entanglement.


http://bullardsbar.wordpress.com/20...e-illegal/

troll
1. v.,n. [From the Usenet group alt.folklore.urban] To utter a posting on
Usenet designed to attract predictable responses or flames; or, the post
itself. Derives from the phrase “trolling for newbies” which in turn comes
from mainstream “trolling”, a style of fishing in which one trails bait
through a likely spot hoping for a bite. The well-constructed troll is a
post that induces lots of newbies and flamers to make themselves look even
more clueless than they already do, while subtly conveying to the more savvy
and experienced that it is in fact a deliberate troll. If you don't fall for
the joke, you get to be in on it. See also YHBT.

2. n. An individual who chronically trolls in sense 1; regularly posts
specious arguments, flames or personal attacks to a newsgroup, discussion
list, or in email for no other purpose than to annoy someone or disrupt a
discussion. Trolls are recognizable by the fact that they have no real
interest in learning about the topic at hand - they simply want to utter
flame bait. Like the ugly creatures they are named after, they exhibit no
redeeming characteristics, and as such, they are recognized as a lower form
of life on the net, as in, “Oh, ignore him, he's just a troll.” Compare
kook.

3. n. [Berkeley] Computer lab monitor. A popular campus job for CS students.
Duties include helping newbies and ensuring that lab policies are followed.
Probably so-called because it involves lurking in dark cavelike corners.

Some people claim that the troll (sense 1) is properly a narrower category
than flame bait, that a troll is categorized by containing some assertion
that is wrong but not overtly controversial. See also Troll-O-Meter.

The use of ‘troll’ in any of these senses is a live metaphor that readily
produces elaborations and combining forms. For example, one not infrequently
sees the warning “Do not feed the troll” as part of a followup to troll
postings.




"Pe" escribió en el mensaje
news:%

IE7 does something no other piece of software has ever done in the history
of computers.

It forces the user to verify the authenticity of a completely separate
piece of software, the Operating System before it will install itself.

Now, this may seem logical from an anti piracy standpoint as a monopolist.
But ask yourself, if you would agree to validate every piece of MS
software
when you installed it against every other piece of software you own
including the OS.

Given the global legal punishment that was meted out on MS for insisting
that IE "could not be separated from the OS" in its drive to kill off
competition, this is quite a randy, flirtatious thumb to the courts of the
world.

Im not sure it is even possible to prosecute against, nor defend oneself
from dependencies among software licenses which make MS again very shrewd
and also very stupid at the same time.

Add DRM to the picture and you see where MS is headed, use their tools to
do anything and you will be quite the licensee indeed.
As the Vista license clearly states, you buy a license you dont own
anything. I guess this is our future.

Its really a great indication of the direction of the industry when new
products are really just stalking horses for more legal entanglement.


http://bullardsbar.wordpress.com/20...e-illegal/

put your copy of ie7 on a cd and throw it into the boston river!!!

and then use another browser in Proooottttteeeeessssstttttt !

"Pe" wrote in message
news:%

IE7 does something no other piece of software has ever done in the history
of computers.

It forces the user to verify the authenticity of a completely separate
piece of software, the Operating System before it will install itself.

Now, this may seem logical from an anti piracy standpoint as a monopolist.
But ask yourself, if you would agree to validate every piece of MS
software
when you installed it against every other piece of software you own
including the OS.

Given the global legal punishment that was meted out on MS for insisting
that IE "could not be separated from the OS" in its drive to kill off
competition, this is quite a randy, flirtatious thumb to the courts of the
world.

Im not sure it is even possible to prosecute against, nor defend oneself
from dependencies among software licenses which make MS again very shrewd
and also very stupid at the same time.

Add DRM to the picture and you see where MS is headed, use their tools to
do anything and you will be quite the licensee indeed.
As the Vista license clearly states, you buy a license you dont own
anything. I guess this is our future.

Its really a great indication of the direction of the industry when new
products are really just stalking horses for more legal entanglement.


http://bullardsbar.wordpress.com/20...e-illegal/

put your copy of ie7 on a cd and throw it into the boston river!!!

and then use another browser in Proooottttteeeeessssstttttt !

"Pe" wrote in message
news:%

IE7 does something no other piece of software has ever done in the history
of computers.

It forces the user to verify the authenticity of a completely separate
piece of software, the Operating System before it will install itself.

Now, this may seem logical from an anti piracy standpoint as a monopolist.
But ask yourself, if you would agree to validate every piece of MS
software
when you installed it against every other piece of software you own
including the OS.

Given the global legal punishment that was meted out on MS for insisting
that IE "could not be separated from the OS" in its drive to kill off
competition, this is quite a randy, flirtatious thumb to the courts of the
world.

Im not sure it is even possible to prosecute against, nor defend oneself
from dependencies among software licenses which make MS again very shrewd
and also very stupid at the same time.

Add DRM to the picture and you see where MS is headed, use their tools to
do anything and you will be quite the licensee indeed.
As the Vista license clearly states, you buy a license you dont own
anything. I guess this is our future.

Its really a great indication of the direction of the industry when new
products are really just stalking horses for more legal entanglement.


http://bullardsbar.wordpress.com/20...e-illegal/