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6 Sep 2024 09:15:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: O RLY?  
From: Darren New
Date: 10 Jul 2009 12:16:58
Message: <4a57697a$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> Tesco might sell petrol at a loss, but they don't give it away *for 
> free* to get you through the door, do they?

What makes you think IE is free? You keep saying this, but you don't give 
any evidence for it.

Tell me, please list the parts of the code that come with Windows that are 
free, vs the parts that are "too expensive"?

>>> Oracle didn't get to be where they are now by stealing other people's 
>>> stuff,
>>
>> Oh really:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Oracle
> 
> Buying something isn't the same as stealing it.

So, when Microsoft buys a license for PC-DOS or Spyglass, it's stealing, but 
when Oracle does, it isn't stealing?

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
    back to version 1.0."
   "We've done that already. We call it 2.0."


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