Re: shitv: 21+ years of shameless support for MS's "lock-in, anti-competitiveness, and extortion"

DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> wrote:

"[Microsoft's] real design goals are to provide adequate functionality
while forcing long-term lock-in, prevent competition of any kind, and
increase the ability to extort money from customers." - shitv Oct 2003
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User-Agent
Oct 2003: Forte Agent 1.92/32.572   (Windows only)
Nov 2024: Forte Agent 1.91/32.564   (Windows only)
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Say it ain't so!

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Chris V. is a fucking prick, but we've been through this, Forte Agent
runs under Wine, even the final 8.0 version I'm using, much less is it
a problem with 1.x.  You *know* this.

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It doesn't run on Linux or Mac.
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It's Windows-only.

 
So Wine is Windows?  I'm not literally typing *this post* in Agent 8,
under Wine?  Are you just making up facts, pulling them out of your
butt, now?

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Take Wine off your Linux crapbox
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put Agent on it
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Run Agent
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Report to us what happened

That's retarded, and you know it, you're just using our use of Agent
as a cheap point to make, about how amazing Winblows software is. It's
not about the platform it's for, it's about the product having unique
value on *any* platform, that's the idea behind Wine and CodeWeavers.
You're trying to conflate some simple app like Agent with M$ Office or
Adobe Photoshop, it doesn't make basic sense.  Agent is precisely the
kind of app that Wine exists to run, an essential, smaller tool.  I
was told by Skype's Copilot that Office 2016 works OK under Wine, I'm
actually curious about that, if I can find a legit copy of it.  You
yourself have talked about clinging to outdated versions of the suite.
Your arguments just don't pass muster.

--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent.  States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.