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[Jeff Siegel]

The XP Licensing model has kept me from doing upgrades on all of my PCs.

Jeff

Tim Gales wrote:

> Jeff Siegel writes:
> "Microsoft applies for a patent on xml format"
> 
> Almost all the moves Microsoft makes
> could be qualified as 'disturbing' -- 
> Is this news -- no this it is the old 
> 'dog bites man' -- the article says 
> something like "Microsoft is going to 
> make a move to extract fees from other companies..."
> 
> Hello there guys from 'down under' -- c'mon 
> why do you thing Microsoft copyrights everything?
> 
> The whole copyright law (at least in the U.S.)
> is getting warped. It used to be you protected an 
> author's intellectual property for a set amount of 
> time (17 years I think it was) (and another amount of 
> time connected to the death of the author) with the 
> possibility of one extension. After that it the work 
> was supposed to be place in the public domain and 
> everyone could use it freely.
> 
> Now corporations (which never die) effectively can create 
> copyrights which may be able to (for all real purposes) stay 
> effect in perpetuity -- and never reach the public domain.
> 
> Anyway these marketing moves (attempts to extract fees from 
> companies) by Microsoft are going to 'blow up' in their face.
> 
> Witness the announcement that there was no longer going to 
> be any support for older windows (Windows 98 etc.) That 
> 'marketing move' was a blatant attempt to move customers 
> to the XP licensing model and ensure that Microsoft 
> would be able to 'extract their fee' -- that went over 
> like a 'lead balloon'. Microsoft had to do a quick 180 
> degree turn, because of the customer uproar against that 
> move.
> 
> Also at Linux World the Microsoft booth has a slogan 
> of (as I recall) "get all the facts" . It is as if to 
> say the open source community is knowingly withholding vital 
> information which could affect your decision as to 
> whether to go with 'closed source' or 'open source'.
> 
> Well I'll leave that alone...
> 
> 
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