____/ RonB on Thursday 24 April 2008 01:57 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Bill Gates Claims Open Source Means Nobody Can Improve Software
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | His complaint is that open source creates a license "so that nobody can
>> | ever improve the software." It's hard to figure out how to respond to
>> | that statement since it's the exact opposite of how open source software
>> | works. The exact point is that anyone can improve the software. It's
>> | proprietary software like Microsoft's that's limited such that only
>> | Microsoft is allowed to improve it. It's no secret that Gates isn't a
>> | fan of open source software, but it still seems odd that he would make a
>> | statement that is so obviously false, both in theory and in practice.
>> | Perhaps old FUD habits die hard, but one would hope that as he enters
>> | "retirement" he'll have a more open mind on such things.
>> `----
>
> Didn't realize Vista ME was open source.

It *might* eventually be, but Ballmer says that Vista ME is still "work in
progress." When will there be a final release of Vista?

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Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> ____/ RonB on Thursday 24 April 2008 01:57 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> Bill Gates Claims Open Source Means Nobody Can Improve Software
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | His complaint is that open source creates a license "so that nobody
>>> | can ever improve the software." It's hard to figure out how to respond
>>> | to that statement since it's the exact opposite of how open source
>>> | software works. The exact point is that anyone can improve the
>>> | software. It's proprietary software like Microsoft's that's limited
>>> | such that only Microsoft is allowed to improve it. It's no secret that
>>> | Gates isn't a fan of open source software, but it still seems odd that
>>> | he would make a statement that is so obviously false, both in theory
>>> | and in practice. Perhaps old FUD habits die hard, but one would hope
>>> | that as he enters "retirement" he'll have a more open mind on such
>>> | things.
>>> `----
>>
>> Didn't realize Vista ME was open source.
>
> It *might* eventually be, but Ballmer says that Vista ME is still "work in
> progress." When will there be a final release of Vista?

But *will* there be a final release of Vista? Or will M$, in their usual
manner, make an updated version of Vista (remember Win98 & 98SE?) so they
can screw yet *more* cash out of their followers...thus fullfilling their
motto "Never give a sucker an even break".

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On 2008-04-24, Roy Schestowitz claimed:
> ____/ RonB on Thursday 24 April 2008 01:57 : \____

>> Didn't realize Vista ME was open source.
>
> It *might* eventually be, but Ballmer says that Vista ME is still "work in
> progress." When will there be a final release of Vista?

6 months or a year after they can safely start pretending they never
heard of it and get the Windummies to fall for it.

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On 2008-04-24, William Poaster claimed:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> ____/ RonB on Thursday 24 April 2008 01:57 : \____

>>> Didn't realize Vista ME was open source.
>>
>> It *might* eventually be, but Ballmer says that Vista ME is still "work in
>> progress." When will there be a final release of Vista?
>
> But *will* there be a final release of Vista? Or will M$, in their usual
> manner, make an updated version of Vista (remember Win98 & 98SE?) so they
> can screw yet *more* cash out of their followers...thus fullfilling their
> motto "Never give a sucker an even break".

I think it'll be more like Windows ME (vs. Vista ME). They'll stop
selling it, stop talking about it, bury it in the press and search
engines with as much information as they can with updated "news" about
Windows 7 ME and pretend it never happened.

NEWSTARD: Did Vista cause you to have to rethink how you're doing
business?

SWEATY: Huh? Vista? What's that? Is that another one of those linux
things? We're not worried about linux. We're not threatened
by it. It never colors anything we do. Now, Windows 7 will
compare very favorably with linux.

NEWSTARD: Vista? Did I say that? I have no idea what that is. I can't
imagine why I mentioned something I never heard of before.
Yeah, linux is a niche product. Vista sounds like a name for
a niche product. It must be another one of those niche linux
products.

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____/ Sinister Midget on Thursday 24 April 2008 10:55 : \____

> On 2008-04-24, Roy Schestowitz claimed:
>> ____/ RonB on Thursday 24 April 2008 01:57 : \____
>
>>> Didn't realize Vista ME was open source.
>>
>> It *might* eventually be, but Ballmer says that Vista ME is still "work in
>> progress." When will there be a final release of Vista?
>
> 6 months or a year after they can safely start pretending they never
> heard of it and get the Windummies to fall for it.

Maybe they can tilt the "V" and make it look like a "7", then pretend Vista
never existed. I want to see Vista in reality one day (never did)... but it's
too early and unfair to judge it while it's "work and progress." I know, I
know... they say it's "not finished yet."

Been waiting since 2001... still no final release of Vista where progress is
said to be complete. Been almost 7 years, no?

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____/ Sinister Midget on Thursday 24 April 2008 11:29 : \____

> On 2008-04-24, William Poaster claimed:
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> ____/ RonB on Thursday 24 April 2008 01:57 : \____
>
>>>> Didn't realize Vista ME was open source.
>>>
>>> It *might* eventually be, but Ballmer says that Vista ME is still "work in
>>> progress." When will there be a final release of Vista?
>>
>> But *will* there be a final release of Vista? Or will M$, in their usual
>> manner, make an updated version of Vista (remember Win98 & 98SE?) so they
>> can screw yet *more* cash out of their followers...thus fullfilling their
>> motto "Never give a sucker an even break".
>
> I think it'll be more like Windows ME (vs. Vista ME). They'll stop
> selling it, stop talking about it, bury it in the press and search
> engines with as much information as they can with updated "news" about
> Windows 7 ME and pretend it never happened.
>
> NEWSTARD: Did Vista cause you to have to rethink how you're doing
> business?
>
> SWEATY: Huh? Vista? What's that? Is that another one of those linux
> things? We're not worried about linux. We're not threatened
> by it. It never colors anything we do. Now, Windows 7 will
> compare very favorably with linux.
>
> NEWSTARD: Vista? Did I say that? I have no idea what that is. I can't
> imagine why I mentioned something I never heard of before.
> Yeah, linux is a niche product. Vista sounds like a name for
> a niche product. It must be another one of those niche linux
> products.
>

From what I've read, SP1 made it worse in certain ways. Even fewer applications
run on that *ahem* resource pig, which is slower than RTM in some ways. Some
people find their system unbootable.

Vista has been very embarrassing to Microsoft and they know the truth
internally (they just hardly show it, but Pirillo sure does).

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~~ Best of wishes

"Don’t encourage new, cross-platform Java classes, especially don’t help get
great Win 32 implementations written/deployed. (..) Do encourage fragmentation
of the Java classlib space."

--Ben Slivka, Microsoft