I apologize since this questions still does not belong into this forum (though it might impact decisions towards linux)
When I installed windows last week again (got hacked) I did not have the option to install sp3 but immediately received sp4 and the .NET network stuff. I am screwed now! Am I not? I assume that sp4 is a combination of all previous SPs? I am mad! Really mad about that. We are so used to click 'agree' without bothering to read the fine print. :( guenter -----Original Message----- From: günter strubinsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 01 April, 2003 11:56 To: 'Randall R Schulz'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Big Brother is Real I missed out on that.. What does sp3 for win2k do? Btw. I only use amd cpu's. To my understanding they don't have the cpu id (I don't trust a software that allows me to turn the id of because obviously software can also turn it on ;) If star office and open office can read/write Micro$oft documents there is hope, otherwise don't hold your breath. Too much has been written over the last 2 decades -and stored in word documents-. If you can't open it the tool can't be used in production environments. If it can, a seamless transition is possible. I just got a new laptop (birthday) and the first time of my life I will install 2 (TWO) OS's on it. (you know which ones) About the license policies integrated: I know that's not the right newsgroup and I will be very careful: The X box has highly sophisticated copy protection integrated in hard and software. It took a whole half year until it got cracked, but the point is that it cot hacked. I heard/read that there are already a wealth of xp versions for download that have the 'call bill back' inherently disabled. The same is true for MS software. I haven't the latest statistics at hand, but the private household; those who made a copy from the office and brought it home for business and private use, won't pay extravagant prices if this is not possible anymore. Those will 'get' the grey copies because of the internets endless sources. A big problem seems to be the de facto standard of behavior by MS products. I loved Sun One's debugger since the function keys are identical to Visual Studio. I love JEDIT since the Ctrl-<char> functions are identical to the MS way (Ctrl-X, Ctrl-K, Ctrl-V, etc.). If the main competitors can (and no copyright can forbid that) emulate this functionality/behavior I see hope on the horizon. If, lastly Office 11 would not be backwards compatible with their previous documents, I see the sun rise! guenter -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Randall R Schulz Sent: Tuesday, 01 April, 2003 10:24 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Big Brother is Real Thorsten, At 07:50 2003-04-01, you wrote: >* Randall R Schulz (03-04-01 17:29 +0100) > > At 07:14 2003-04-01, you wrote: > >> On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > >>> XP is the first rocksolid Windows OS. > >> > >> ... with completely unrealistic licensing (see the last paragraph of > >> <http://www.aaxnet.com/editor/edit029.html#office>). > > > > OH. MY. GOD. > > > > I installed SP3 on my Win2K. Ignorance is NOT bliss. > > > > I guess it really is time to move to Linux. > >You won't. You would have to use Wine to get Cygwin running, and that >is n-o-t s-u-p-p-o-r-t-e-d. I won't what? What are you saying? If I move to Linux (or Solaris or MacOS X or FreeBSD, etc.), Cygwin will become irrelevant for me. You're an odd bird, Thorsten. >Thorsten Randall Schulz -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
