Re: Microsoft bullies again

2001-10-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 03:10:56PM +0200, George Karaolides ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Greg Madden wrote: > > > More wasted bandwidth, > > > > No, it didn't deny intrance it redirected you to a site that suggests > > you download a MS product., while suggesting MS was

Re: Microsoft bullies again

2001-10-29 Thread George Karaolides
On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Greg Madden wrote: > More wasted bandwidth, > > No, it didn't deny intrance it redirected you to a site that suggests > you download a MS product., while suggesting MS was standards compliant > & whatever you were using was not. FWIW, Konq & Opera passed the W3C > vali

Re: Microsoft bullies again

2001-10-28 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 snip > What's wrong with Microsoft banning certain users from their OWN > site? It's like complaining to a fancy restaurant that your shorts > are okay despite the dress code. Maybe you could just run IE under > wine. More wasted bandwidth, No, it d

Re: Microsoft bullies again

2001-10-28 Thread DvB
"Karsten M. Self" writes: > This isn't comperable to a "shorts or slacks" dress code issue. > And last I checked, MSIE didn't run under WINE (recent versions of > each). > I actually know someone that got it running... don't know how except that he was running it off his windows partition whi

Re: Microsoft bullies again

2001-10-28 Thread Patrick Schnorbus
> That depends on your definition of "wrong." Certainly, I'd say that MS has > the legal right to set up their site anyway they like. But the question of > what's right, in the sense of what's allowable, is different from the > question of what's right, in the sense of either what's proper or wha

Re: Microsoft bullies again

2001-10-28 Thread John Hasler
Daniel D Jones writes: > Just because someone CAN do something does not mean that they SHOULD. Cluttering debian-user with anti-Microsoft flames being an example. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Microsoft bullies again

2001-10-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 02:32:54AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Monday 29 October 2001 01:38, Bud Rogers wrote: > > On Friday 26 October 2001 19:41 pm, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > Thought may be interesting for the debian community: > > > NEW YORK (October 26, 2001 4:29 p.m. EDT) -

Re: Microsoft bullies again

2001-10-28 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Sunday 28 October 2001 13:32, csj wrote: > On Monday 29 October 2001 01:38, Bud Rogers wrote: > > On Friday 26 October 2001 19:41 pm, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > Thought may be interesting for the debian community: > > > NEW YORK (October 26, 2001 4:29 p.m. EDT) - Microsoft's premiere > > > W

Re: Microsoft bullies again

2001-10-28 Thread Bud Rogers
On Sunday 28 October 2001 12:32 pm, csj wrote: > On Monday 29 October 2001 01:38, Bud Rogers wrote: > > On Friday 26 October 2001 19:41 pm, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > Thought may be interesting for the debian community: > > > NEW YORK (October 26, 2001 4:29 p.m. EDT) - Microsoft's premiere > >

Re: Microsoft bullies again

2001-10-28 Thread dman
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 02:32:54AM +0800, csj wrote: | On Monday 29 October 2001 01:38, Bud Rogers wrote: | > On Friday 26 October 2001 19:41 pm, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: | > > Thought may be interesting for the debian community: | > > NEW YORK (October 26, 2001 4:29 p.m. EDT) - Microsoft's premier

Re: Microsoft bullies again

2001-10-28 Thread csj
On Monday 29 October 2001 01:38, Bud Rogers wrote: > On Friday 26 October 2001 19:41 pm, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > Thought may be interesting for the debian community: > > NEW YORK (October 26, 2001 4:29 p.m. EDT) - Microsoft's premiere > > Web portal, MSN.com, denied access to millions of peopl

Re: Microsoft bullies again

2001-10-28 Thread Bud Rogers
On Friday 26 October 2001 19:41 pm, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Thought may be interesting for the debian community: > NEW YORK (October 26, 2001 4:29 p.m. EDT) - Microsoft's premiere Web portal, > MSN.com, denied access to millions of people who use alternative browser > software such as Opera and

Re: Microsoft bullies again

2001-10-28 Thread Dettinger
-- > Von: Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > An: Debian Users > > NEW YORK (October 26, 2001 4:29 p.m. EDT) - Microsoft's premiere Web portal, > MSN.com, denied access to millions of people who use alternative browser > software such as Opera and told them to get Microsoft's products

Re: Microsoft bullies again

2001-10-28 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 08:41:30PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Thought may be interesting for the debian community: > NEW YORK (October 26, 2001 4:29 p.m. EDT) - Microsoft's premiere Web portal, > MSN.com, denied access to millions of people who use alternative browser > software such as Oper

Microsoft bullies again

2001-10-27 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Thought may be interesting for the debian community: NEW YORK (October 26, 2001 4:29 p.m. EDT) - Microsoft's premiere Web portal, MSN.com, denied access to millions of people who use alternative browser software such as Opera and told them to get Microsoft's products instead. http://www.nandotimes.