Author: Eelco de Groot
Date: 15:18:32 12/10/03
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On December 10, 2003 at 03:18:22, margolies,marc wrote: >This is in order to comply with a settlement of the suit with Sun about Java. >ref slash-dot ref msnbc.com I read on ComputerWeekly.com ( http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=127130&liArticleTypeID=1&liCategoryID=6&liChannelID=1&liFlavourID=1&sSearch=&nPage=1 ) "The full list of products that Microsoft will retire from the channel as of 15 December are: Office XP Developer; Visio 2000; BackOffice Server 2000; Office 2000 Developer; Office 2000 Tools; Office 2000 Multilingual; Office 2000 Premium SR-1; Office 2000 Service Pack 2; Outlook 2000; Project 2000; SQL Server 7; SQL Server 7 Service Pack 3; Embedded Visual Tools 3.0; Visual Studio 6 MSDE; Internet Explorer 5.5; MapPoint 2002; Visual Studio 6.0 SP3 and SP5; Windows 98; Windows 98 Y2K; Windows 98 Resource Kit; Windows 98 SP1; Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server and Option Pack and Visual Basic for Alpha Systems." This is of course a disgrace! Didn't Microsoft have enough money to buy from Sun the rights to use that stuff which it seems they stole from Sun in the first place? Didn't we pay for this software? Shouldn't we get our money back then? The article on Computer Weekly has this nice sentence: "Although the products will no longer be available in the channel or for download from Microsoft's Developer Network (MSDN), existing users will still be able to use them." )#$%^$%@& incredible! Microsoft graciously *allows* you to use your software, after they stole half of the code from another company, practically forcing their operating system etc. upon you when you buy a computer and after undoubtedly planning to terminate all further support of it, because for once they could not countersue in a courtcase. Eelco
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