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    Kevin Hilvers

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  1. Comment - Appeals Court Reverses MS Breakup

    (Jul 1, 2001 - 7:39 PM)

    I will start by saying that I don't consider AOL an ISP I consider them a content provider and as far as I am concerened the only other CONTENT PROVIDER is Compuserve and that's owned by AOL. Yes MSN could be viewed as a Content Provider but atleast with them you are still basicly browsing the internet with a browser, when you use AOL you use there proprietary software and if you want to go to a certain area like games or entertainment you end up in an area created by AOl and they filter out what they don't think is useful. Most of the time if you go to an AOL area it takes you to a page that promotes something that AOL Time Warner owns. An ISP on the otherhand lets you browse the web the way you want. Your not stuck with AOL's version of what they think you want to see. I am not saying that AOL is bad I think AOL is great for the beginer or for that matter someone who wants everything filtered out for them. Hey they must be doing something right hell they almost have 30 million subscribers. Most of there subscribers though are not your computer experts, most of them are newbies that do not know any better and if they were showed the REAL internet would probably leave the service.

  2. Comment - Appeals Court Reverses MS Breakup

    (Jun 30, 2001 - 8:17 PM)

    First off this case should have never made it as far as it has.
    1. How can Microsoft have a Monopoly on the OS market when there are many other OS's to choose from. For instance Linux, Beos, Apple, if you don't like MS then swithch.
    2. The Browser market is the same way if you don't like IE then switch to Netscpe or Opera. Netscape by the way is owned by a company that does truly have a monopoly AOL Time Warner. Its not MS's fault that IE is better, hell AOL even uses it with there software. They could use Netscape if they wanted to but they won't because IE is better.
    3. Where would computers be today without Microsoft? Not nearly as popular as they are.
    4. If you owned a company that makes software would you want the goverment to tell you what you can and can not include with it. Thats just bulls***, The only reason Microsoft was picked on to begin with is companys like Oracle, and Netscape can't make software good enough to compete so they cried foul.

  3. Comment - Microsoft: We Use FreeBSD

    (Jun 20, 2001 - 4:33 PM)

    There is no version of Linux that supports the amount of hardware or software that Windows 98, Me or even 2000 does. There is no other OS period,that can. So all you people can shut the hell up. Microsoft's operating systems may have a few problems here and there but most of the problems come from the other companys badly coded programs and drivers. I use both Linux and Windows 2000 and all I have to say is Win 2000 wins hands down.

  4. Comment - Microsoft: We Use FreeBSD

    (Jun 19, 2001 - 3:41 PM)

    All I have to say is if you don't like Microsoft then don't use there products!!!!!!!!!!! All of you people bashing Microsoft but you still use there products. Name me one OS that can do everything Windows 2000 can do.