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Offline Petrarch of the VBB

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Microsoft want to buy Google.
Says it all really.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5-876034,00.html

I'm not having this. I'm utterly powerless, but I'm not having it.

 

Offline Taristin

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Microsoft want to buy Google.
I like Dogpile... m'self.
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Offline Nuclear1

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Microsoft want to buy Google.
Dear Lord... not another one.
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Offline Taristin

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Microsoft want to buy Google.
:wtf:  What's wrong with Dogpile. And don't say 'It sucks'
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Offline Solatar

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Microsoft want to buy Google.
It's crap.:D

Nah, it's pretty good and I'll probably use it if Micro$oft buys Google.

 

Offline 01010

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Microsoft want to buy Google.
Anything but Google. IS NOTHING SACRED ANYMORE?
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Offline IceFire

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Microsoft want to buy Google.
No...wait till Microsoft controls your computer with Palladium (oh sorry, umm whatever the acronym is for it now) and can delete, view, and modify whatever they want on your computer, all in the name of security.

THEN, and only then, will nothing be truly sacred.
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Offline Taristin

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Microsoft want to buy Google.
meep. Thats when I become a devout linux user.
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Offline Kosh

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No...wait till Microsoft controls your computer with Palladium (oh sorry, umm whatever the acronym is for it now) and can delete, view, and modify whatever they want on your computer, all in the name of security.


Don't they also need Palladium enabled hardware for that to work?

And besides, its bound to be cracked by someone. The crack for the Window$ XP product activation came out before the public release of Window$ XP itself.
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Offline Bri_Dog

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Microsoft want to buy Google.
Why can't they just stop trying to be a monopoly?
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Offline Krackers87

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Originally posted by 01010
Anything but Google. IS NOTHING SACRED ANYMORE?


wait... stuff used to be sared?
Put this in your profile if you know someone who is fighting, has survived, or has died from an awp no scope.

just like seventies goofballs
he's waiting on last calls
well listen method man
'cause if you leave on the last line
don't leave on the ground kind
born just a little too slow

 

Offline Deepblue

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Originally posted by Krackers87


wait... stuff used to be sacred?

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Offline Drew

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Originally posted by Bri_Dog
Why can't they just stop trying to be a monopoly?

tehcnically its called capitalism; but taking Google? that would make me mad at them...
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Offline IceFire

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Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
meep. Thats when I become a devout linux user.

My thinking exactly...thats when I hope a very violent (symbolically) shift is made to alternative OSes that better respect basic rights that have been long established and fought over in my country and other countries.

I actually would be interested to see what the CRTC up here would do about something like that.  I'd hope they'd give Microsoft a good blackeye perhaps.  Make them rethink their security strategy...like actually bothering to spend the time to program better software in the first place.
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Offline Solatar

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Microsoft want to buy Google.
And my friends all wonder why I don't use Microsoft Word...I use Open Office.org and Notepad (do the occasional science report in HTML).


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Offline Bobboau

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Microsoft want to buy Google.
"Microsoft want to buy %s"
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Offline castor

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Microsoft want to buy Google.
Well, it has dominated for a time long enough.
Time for some fresh winds to blow..

 

Offline Solatar

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Microsoft want to buy Google.
Well what can we do about it?

nothing legal... :devil:

 

Offline Stryke 9

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Microsoft want to buy Google.
Oh, horrors. One giant, faceless, disgustingly rich corporation that provides menial but important services functionally, if not pleasantly or particularly efficiently and treats its customers like so much livestock is about to be bought up by another. And I had such a deep emotional investment in one of them.

Yeah, Google's pretty handy (for now), but it's not like it's the only search engine that could ever be any good, or like its performance (or the performance of whatever engine it's turned into) will be greatly hampered by this. The result is about the same for end users no matter what. No real reason to be upset about it other than projecting human features on thoroughly nonhuman megacorps.
« Last Edit: October 31, 2003, 11:13:42 pm by 262 »

 

Offline Liberator

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Originally posted by IceFire
...like actually bothering to spend the time to program better software in the first place.


Why bother when you can buy the best and market it as your own?
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The age long strife I see
Where I fought in many guises,
Many names, but always me.

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