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Chathurawind

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Re: Things are getting strange ...
« Reply #44 from previous page: February 27, 2002, 12:16:40 AM »
Just wish they'd have linked before the site turned into a construction area. :-(
 

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Re: Things are getting strange ...
« Reply #45 on: February 27, 2002, 12:34:01 AM »
TO be fair, M$ looks at pretty much every product at the market at some point. When you have that much money you can research anything. However, I can see distinct problems, any technology that M$ looks at tends to get licenced and then re-worked as a Windows compatible only technology.

This stage may mean nothing, Or it may be the begining.. either way no matter what we write on Amiga org, the outcome will still be the same.
 

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Re: Things are getting strange ...
« Reply #46 on: February 27, 2002, 08:52:58 AM »
MS have nothing to do with Java. Its fully controled by SUN. Why do you think .NET exists?

Its MS's plan to kill Java!
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Re: Things are getting strange ...
« Reply #47 on: February 27, 2002, 10:10:12 AM »
I don't think microsoft is good for amiga either, but they may have been good for sega. it was actually sony that killed sega's consumer hardware biz. now sega can release games on xbox, gamecube and ps2. that's bad for me though, cos i don't know which to buy :)
 

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Re: Things are getting strange ...
« Reply #48 on: February 27, 2002, 03:29:22 PM »
Hmmm, judging my MS's reputation, it would be easy to think that they are intending to swallow Amiga or pinch its ideas, write their own version, patent it and then try and sue Amiga for pinching their ideas :)
Personally, I'd just wait and see what "goes down".  
 

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Re: Things are getting strange ...
« Reply #49 on: February 27, 2002, 03:58:39 PM »
1. Microsoft want .NET on AmigaDE
2. Microsoft wants AmigaDE
3. Microsoft wants to kill AmigaDE
4. Microsoft wants to to something bad to AmigaDE
5. Microsoft wants WindowsDE
6. Microsoft wants to eat AmigaDE
7. Microsoft wants to make MicrosoftReversEngineeredAmigaDE
8. Microsoft wants it soooo bad, that AmigaDE
9. Microsoft wants to make IE for AmigaDE, so that the size get to be 12389 GB instead of 1MB
10. Microsoft just wants to kill me for making this list.
 

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Re: Things are getting strange ...
« Reply #50 on: February 27, 2002, 06:46:33 PM »
Hahahahahaha...  There needs to be  a  JoeCartoon on that one! :)

 

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Re: Things are getting strange ...
« Reply #51 on: February 27, 2002, 06:48:24 PM »
Remember that scene in the movie The Pirates of Silicon Valley  (about Apple and Microsoft), where Bill  Gates wheels in a new Apple  product and is violently shouting, "I  WANT THIS!  I'VE GOT TO HAVE THIS  FOR WINDOWS" or something similar?

;)  Well...

 

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Re: Things are getting strange ...
« Reply #52 on: February 27, 2002, 07:39:40 PM »
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Don“t let this happen!
 

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Re: Things are getting strange ...
« Reply #53 on: February 27, 2002, 07:49:51 PM »
Hmmmm...... This really is bizzare. MS are dirty dealers - no doubt about it. I remember that there was this old animation package called Animation Master (nicknamed HASH after its author, Martin Hash) Rumour is that MS looked at his software - bought some of the source code, and  took it away to have a go at reverse engineering it - and prevent Hash from continuing its development ...... eventually Hash was able get his source back. Not a nice way to do buisness. Be careful - better still, dont jump into bed with the Devil. If another company was this into DE - Apple for example - I wouldnt be so negative. But this is MS......
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Re: Things are getting strange ...
« Reply #54 on: February 27, 2002, 08:56:24 PM »
It's funny you should mention industry standard quality software. Unless I'm very much mistaken, Microsoft are not in the industry standard quality software buisness, they're in the propriety format, bloatware buisness. Name just one standard that Microsoft have set in all the years it's been the dominating force in the computer industry. Name just one Microsoft product that is functionally superior to ALL OTHER competitive products available. Right, now that we've firmly establised that Microsoft are peddling mediocre non-standard software, and on top of that hold a dangerous, and illegal monopoly on the Operating system market, what makes you think, even for a second, that they're gonna play nice with Amiga? Did we really learn so little from Caldera, Netscape, Corel, Oracle and SUN? All of them are (or where) financially stronger than Amiga is now.

Popular titles are not going to happen for AmigaDE, no matter how interesting. Look at Linux and MacOS! Both have infinitely larger marketshares than DE, and neither of them have all the more popular titles. Linux is particularilly lacking in that respect. IMHO it would be better to ally with Steve Jobs and Apple. They have patents and technology, Microsoft only have the money. And how do you get lots and lots of money, BY NOT SPENDING IT. Particularilly by NOT SPENDING it on porting your flagship titles for PDA's that do not have nearly the CPU, RAM or Storage capacities needed to run Microsoft products.
 

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Re: Things are getting strange ...
« Reply #55 on: February 27, 2002, 09:03:39 PM »
I really dont like this.......  :-x
 

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Re: Things are getting strange ...
« Reply #56 on: February 27, 2002, 09:39:19 PM »
Think what would happen if AMIGA bought-out  Microsoft! It would be so cool :pint:
 

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Re: Things are getting strange ...
« Reply #57 on: February 28, 2002, 01:56:41 AM »
RE: the idiotic reply to my previous post,

Do your research, MacOS has IE and office already, hello! M$ do port their software to other platforms. In the personal computer realm, M$ dont make much money off Windows, but they make a $#@!load off office so they are willing to spread it around without the OS.

> Microsoft are not in the industry standard quality software buisness
MS office, hello! yes its bloatware but its the industry standard, IE is once again the industry standard web broweser, hello! QED. not great quality but as you see later in my post, that is beside the point.

>NOT SPENDING it on porting your flagship titles for PDA's
yes they do,(here it comes) HELLO!, i dont like it but im just illistrating that your a half-wit, do some research idiot.

However i wasnt implying that MS software is in general what we want, perhaps IE would be good as it will give us standards, but mozilla is also a fantastic alternative (when they fix a few css glitches) its the adobe, newtek and other world class software producers that im interested in. MS can be used by us to unwittingly generate a huge amount of interest in Amiga and Amiga DE. btw, you people can be so short sighted. Who says its about sitting back and letting bill ruin our platform, how about we use him for our purposes >:-)

ps, im no MS supporter, i imagine i dispise them more then most of you, but im not going to be blinded by ignorance as most of you people seems to be doing. At least if i know what im talking about by keeping an open mind, i will know how to fight them all the better.
 

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Re: Things are getting strange ...
« Reply #58 on: February 28, 2002, 03:34:29 AM »
M$ did not help SGI or Dreamcast, they raped and pillaged what they wanted and left the companys to die in the aftermath. On SGI they raped all the 3D apps and OpenGL. Also don't forget M$ and Nvida stole UMA idea from the SGI O2 for the X-Box. Sega also got a royal raping from M$ on Dreamcast! playing with M$ is playng with the death of your company!
 

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Re: Things are getting strange ...
« Reply #59 on: February 28, 2002, 03:58:41 AM »
Its true that Microsoft is bad news. Irespective of what they may do to Amiga or any other company - there presence is enough to split the user base.


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