Re: [LUG] More On The Patents/M$ Agenda

[Sadie Brinham <barmy_fungy_fips@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Julian Hall wrote:
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> From: "paul sutton" <zen14920@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 4:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [LUG] More On The Patents/M$ Agenda
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> > How much of this is FUD, or are MS going to sue, China
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> I'd like to see Microsoft try to sue a country with several billion
> consumers of their products.  Nice way to drive them into the OS fold :)
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> Cheers,
>
> Julian
Ha ha..you say that Jules,but don't you remember the article in Linux 
Format (might have been Linux User and Developer,in which case,sorry)?
The long and short of it was that 80% of machines in China are running 
cracked Windoze.
M$ wasn't sweating over it,though.They said they were going to work on a 
method of clawing back the money/hooking the Chinese in.

Round about the same time the Chinese wrote a particularly nasty trojan 
that connects to the listening Task Manager port...mmmm..
Come to think of it,M$ is streets ahead in the open source game.I 
mean,those polymorphic agobots are freely downloadable,and most 
malicious software is compatible with all flavours of Windows.

Sadie

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