Microsoft, which will on Monday learn whether a top European Union court has annulled the landmark 2004 antitrust ruling against the US software developer, is warning technology rivals they should be careful what they wish for.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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Jimbob
4 years 36 weeks 12 hours 44 min ago
Title reads to me as: Microsoft
Title reads to me as: Microsoft threatens rivals who side with EU.
Mafiasoft seems to be doing the old extortion routine. MS corners each company that suggests the EU ruling is a good one in a dark alley and says: "Don' even think aboud soidin' wit these EU goiys o yo gunna really regreddid," [taps fat end of baseball bat in the palm of one hand while a couple of hired goons suspiciously the size and shape of gorillas crack knuckles and move in, flanking MS as it shadows over the opposition], "We ain't a monopoly are we boiys? We bulieve in competition don' we boiys? [sinister chuckling] We bulieve in fairness. Howsaboud this: you soide with us and we don' break yo kneee caps? Sounds fair to me. Whoevuh said we ain't fair's got us all wrong now don' they?... DON' THEY.
lozz
4 years 36 weeks 11 hours 26 min ago
M$ is spouting self-serving rubbish
M$ is spouting self-serving rubbish again. None of these other companies try to operate like an out-of-control, power-crazed, worldwide monopoly, and this case is squarely aimed at squelching this ruthless conduct by Microsoft.