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| Time: 15:41 EST/20:41 GMT | News Source: BetaNews | Posted By: Todd Richardson | ||
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A public interest lawyer who is also intending to run as a Republican in the 2006 Illinois gubernatorial race is taking his fight to Microsoft in hopes of preventing the company from releasing what he calls "bad code." Andy Martin of The Committee to Fight Microsoft on Tuesday announced his intentions to block Microsoft from releasing its Windows Vista operating system. Martin intends to ask Microsoft for an unconditional warranty that the operating system is free of bugs that could result in security vulnerabilities. "Bill Gates sells the public defective products, and then expects us to spend years being his guinea pigs, while he corrects the myriad of defects and vulnerabilities in his defective code. This is mass consumer fraud." Martin argued. "It is unacceptable corporate behavior. Over four years after Windows XP was released I still receive regular 'updates' and 'bug fixes,' which reflect a product that was originally scandalously defective." |
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| #1 By 7754 (216.160.8.41) at Tuesday, August 09, 2005 04:30:38 PM |
| Great! As long as Sun, Novell, RedHat, IBM, Apple, and every other OS vendor out there is held accountable to release defect-free OSes, I'm all for it. Of course, we'd never see another OS release in our life, but hey, we took a stand! |
| #2 By 9589 (68.17.52.2) at Tuesday, August 09, 2005 04:49:39 PM |
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Good 'ol Andy . . . One of the original I hate Microsoft crowd. They just don't make'em like they used to!
Oh, by the way, Andy, the sue the crap out of Microsoft crowd has moved on. There are over in the EU. Where even though they don't have a constitution that anyone would actually vote for, have been successful in extracting, without the hinderance of a full appeallate review, nearly 2/3 of a billion dollars from Microsoft. By comparison, Andy, you are an abject failure at bloodsucking from the corporate teat. And, Andy, you won't be elected Governor because you hate Microsoft. Sorry. . . |
| #3 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Tuesday, August 09, 2005 04:57:18 PM |
| This guy is an idiot. As much as I dislike MS, what he's asking is impossible. What's surprising is that he's a pro-business Republican. |
| #4 By 61 (65.32.175.192) at Tuesday, August 09, 2005 04:58:34 PM |
| In a way, it does come with a warentee, which is exactly why you get FREE updates. |
| #5 By 3653 (63.162.177.143) at Tuesday, August 09, 2005 05:37:46 PM |
| proof that "republican" isn't always equivalent to "pro-business". |
| #6 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at Tuesday, August 09, 2005 07:24:44 PM |
| Why not keep political orientations out of this debate. IMO an incompetent is an incompetent no matter what his/her political opinions are. |
| #7 By 1926 (65.7.157.123) at Tuesday, August 09, 2005 07:40:05 PM |
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1. Once again a typical lawyer and politician that will crowd our courts with crap.
2. He obviously isn't bright enough to make a better product 3. Doing a google search on his outfit brings up an interesting article that says MS hates the muslims,,,,,who cares? |
| #8 By 2332 (66.92.78.189) at Tuesday, August 09, 2005 11:47:58 PM |
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Bwhahahaha.... what an idiot.
People like this should be unconditionally fired from whatever jobs they claim to have. |
| #9 By 1190 (71.97.180.28) at Wednesday, August 10, 2005 02:04:21 AM |
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This is my favorite quote..
"Over four years after Windows XP was released I still receive regular 'updates' and 'bug fixes," No sh!t, welcome to the computer age, Mr. Bean. Priceless. So he would rather have no updates and bug fixes? Well in that case, switch to a Mac. Oops, that's right...OSX gets updated regularly with those pesky "bug fixes" as well. Oh I know! Linux is the answser. Darn, that won't work either seeing as IT TOO is regularly patched. Does he fall for Phising scams as well? Somebody give me his email address so I can send him a special email..."Dear Andy, My name is Mr. Foo Fighter Mubutu of the Nigerian Treasury Ministry..." |
| #10 By 3653 (63.162.177.143) at Wednesday, August 10, 2005 11:47:04 AM |
| True csmac. True. |
| #11 By 2960 (156.80.34.36) at Wednesday, August 10, 2005 12:04:19 PM |
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Ok, clearly Microsoft needs to do much, much better but this guy is nuts.
TL |
| #12 By 665 (67.185.98.5) at Thursday, August 11, 2005 12:43:05 AM |
| dave123, XP SP2 included a slew of upgrades - not just code fixes. |
