Help Software Company Stop the "Thought Thieves"!!

[Fve Crathva]

If the tech companies 25 years ago hadn't stolen ideas from each other, we'd still be living in the 80s. Like it or not, accessible Microsoft OSes running on cheap IBM clones are what got us where we are today. What might have happened otherwise is irrelevant, since it didn't.

SP

[Qilue]

Originally posted by Fve Crathva
If the tech companies 25 years ago hadn't stolen ideas from each other, we'd still be living in the 80s. Like it or not, accessible Microsoft OSes running on cheap IBM clones are what got us where we are today. What might have happened otherwise is irrelevant, since it didn't.

SP

The original point of this thread before the personal attacks and such began was that a company (who main product has dubious beginnings) is running a competition about the immorality of intellectual property theft.

[Fve Crathva]

I didn't read it, because I don't care.

SP

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
You missed it entirely.

If it were something like 1989, sure. 1999 was after Windows 98, thus, a highly dubious image.

Why? Is it illegal to run an old OS or something?

[DaShi]

In China, it is.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Wow.

You know, I've cast my mind back over the six years I've been posting here, and I genuinely can't think of a more tedious thread than this one. Check these points out-

1- It's about Microsoft, which makes it about as interesting as watching fog form.
2- It's just the 400th episode of the limpest, lamest, and longest-running squabble in this site's history. Get a room, you freaks.
3- It's got screenprints of old operating systems.
4- The opening post only exists to take a swipe at another poster.
5- Rather than the resident moderator showing any mild displeasure at said opening post, said mod just joins in.
6- Said moderator is, frankly, being a bit weird. Or (possibly) thick. Or (possibly) both.
7- These points should have aroused sympathy for the banned, but he just pissed that up the wall by taking it to CG.

That's an impressive litany, by any standards. It just needs Fezzing to become genuinely unbearable.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
If it were something like 1989, sure. 1999 was after Windows 98, thus, a highly dubious image.

As if no one could be running Win 1.0 today, or that someone couldn't have forwarded their clock.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
That's an impressive litany, by any standards. It just needs Fezzing to become genuinely unbearable.

LIES. You CRIMINAL. Everything you post is communist garbage without a shred of proof! You are...

Oh, to hell with it, I can't do him justice.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
5- Rather than the resident moderator showing any mild displeasure at said opening post, said mod just joins in.

Well, said moderator has never been a shining example of even-handedness in his duties, alas.

[Immortal Wombat]

Re: Help Software Company Stop the "Thought Thieves"!!

Originally posted by Agathon
Jesus... as if repackaging Windows XP and advertising it again wasn't pathetic enough: Microsoft now wants to help educate kids about people who steal the ideas of others.

http://www.msn.co.uk/thoughtthieves/Default.asp

I'd make a film all about the evils of thought theft entirely made up of clips from other films, with additional voiceover from stolen mp3s.

[Fve Crathva]

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
3- It's got screenprints of old operating systems.

You have no heart.

SP

[Fake Boris]

Err... a mod using his powers to win a debate?

China, anyone?

[Jules]

"Pirates of Silicon Valley." That was a good movie.

Steve Jobs: "Our stuff is better."

Bill Gates: "Don't you get it, Steve? That doesn't matter!"

[Fve Crathva]

Steve Ballmer was played by the guy who did Bender's voice on Futurama.

SP