[nylug-talk] Trend Micro sues Barracuda over ClamAV

[Chris Knadle]

On Friday 01 February 2008, Ron Guerin wrote:
> Chris Knadle wrote:
> >    Yeah, I think Microsoft gained their original dominance by being
> > cheaper, easier to use, and by running on cheaper commodity hardware.
>
> They chose instead to gain dominance through illegal contracts forcing
> OEMs to pay Microsoft for MSDOS whether the machine shipped with it or
> not.  I wanted to find a URL for that, but I've gotta run out the door,
> maybe someone else can dig that up.  It was during the Clinton
> administration, and all they got a slap on the wrist for it.  Business
> and society will be paying for that for years to come still.

   Ah hah.  Now it makes sense why they intentionally broke Windows so that it 
wouldn't work on top of other versions of DOS.  I didn't forget about that.
   And yet another reason for stronger campaign finance reform.

> The ZX81 wasn't the first machine I programmed, that was an IBM 360/40
> mainframe.  But the 81 was the first machine I *owned* and that warm
> fuzzy feeling was worth what I paid for it, even if the price was cut in
> half a few weeks later when the Timex/Sinclair version came out.
>
> - Ron

   The best part about the ZX81 that we had was that we built it from a kit.  
That was fun to build, and the fact that it had 2K of RAM instead of 1K was 
actually a big deal -- I could write programs that actually did something 
without running out of RAM first.
   But the keyboard and screen were still terrible.  :-P

   -- Chris

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Chris Knadle
Chris.Knadle at coredump.us