15-05-2005 12:26									#31
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If the tech companies 25 years ago hadn't stolen ideas from each other, we'd still be living in the 80s. Like it or not, accessible Microsoft OSes running on cheap IBM clones are what got us where we are today. What might have happened otherwise is irrelevant, since it didn't.

SP

	15-05-2005 13:26									#32
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quote: Originally posted by Fve Crathva If the tech companies 25 years ago hadn't stolen ideas from each other, we'd still be living in the 80s. Like it or not, accessible Microsoft OSes running on cheap IBM clones are what got us where we are today. What might have happened otherwise is irrelevant, since it didn't. SP

The original point of this thread before the personal attacks and such began was that a company (who main product has dubious beginnings) is running a competition about the immorality of intellectual property theft.

	15-05-2005 13:30									#33
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I didn't read it, because I don't care.

SP

	15-05-2005 16:12									#34
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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger You missed it entirely. If it were something like 1989, sure. 1999 was after Windows 98, thus, a highly dubious image.

Why? Is it illegal to run an old OS or something?

	15-05-2005 17:03									#35
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In China, it is.

	15-05-2005 19:07									#36
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Wow.

You know, I've cast my mind back over the six years I've been posting here, and I genuinely can't think of a more tedious thread than this one. Check these points out-

1- It's about Microsoft, which makes it about as interesting as watching fog form.
2- It's just the 400th episode of the limpest, lamest, and longest-running squabble in this site's history. Get a room, you freaks.
3- It's got screenprints of old operating systems.
4- The opening post only exists to take a swipe at another poster.
5- Rather than the resident moderator showing any mild displeasure at said opening post, said mod just joins in.
6- Said moderator is, frankly, being a bit weird. Or (possibly) thick. Or (possibly) both.
7- These points should have aroused sympathy for the banned, but he just pissed that up the wall by taking it to CG.

That's an impressive litany, by any standards. It just needs Fezzing to become genuinely unbearable.

	15-05-2005 19:19									#37
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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger If it were something like 1989, sure. 1999 was after Windows 98, thus, a highly dubious image.

As if no one could be running Win 1.0 today, or that someone couldn't have forwarded their clock.

	15-05-2005 22:11									#38
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quote: Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp That's an impressive litany, by any standards. It just needs Fezzing to become genuinely unbearable.

LIES. You CRIMINAL. Everything you post is communist garbage without a shred of proof! You are...

Oh, to hell with it, I can't do him justice.

	15-05-2005 22:13									#39
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quote: Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp 5- Rather than the resident moderator showing any mild displeasure at said opening post, said mod just joins in.

Well, said moderator has never been a shining example of even-handedness in his duties, alas.

	15-05-2005 22:19									#40
	Re: Help Software Company Stop the "Thought Thieves"!! Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations

quote: Originally posted by Agathon Jesus... as if repackaging Windows XP and advertising it again wasn't pathetic enough: Microsoft now wants to help educate kids about people who steal the ideas of others. http://www.msn.co.uk/thoughtthieves/Default.asp

I'd make a film all about the evils of thought theft entirely made up of clips from other films, with additional voiceover from stolen mp3s.

	16-05-2005 00:54									#41
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quote: Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp 3- It's got screenprints of old operating systems.

You have no heart.

SP

	16-05-2005 03:23									#42
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Err... a mod using his powers to win a debate?

China, anyone?

	16-05-2005 07:15									#43
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"Pirates of Silicon Valley." That was a good movie.

Steve Jobs: "Our stuff is better."

Bill Gates: "Don't you get it, Steve? That doesn't matter!"

	16-05-2005 08:53									#44
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Steve Ballmer was played by the guy who did Bender's voice on Futurama.

SP