●● IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Sunday, May 11, 2025 ●● ● May 11 [00:20] *fantom has quit (Ping timeout: 244 seconds) [00:21] *fantom (~fantom@33be818f.skybroadband.com) has joined #boycottnovell ● May 11 [10:32] *amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [10:32] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [10:37] *amarsh04 (~amarsh04@freenode-mgvjop.g0d7.dtdf.mc4289.IP) has joined #boycottnovell [10:37] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@h5zkbfemmwig6.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● May 11 [13:41] *croissant_ (~croissant@fh6ekzxbsrgay.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [13:41] *croissant has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● May 11 [15:38] *croissant_ has quit (Quit: Leaving) [15:55] *wallacer has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [15:55] *wallacer (~quassel@2x2w4qfz3wksg.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● May 11 [16:18] schestowitz[TR2] > This may seem strange, but I ask you please_not_ to post [16:18] schestowitz[TR2] > about instances of people campaigning against me publicly. [16:18] schestowitz[TR2] > Especially please don't post about decisions to cancel me. [16:18] schestowitz[TR2] > [16:18] schestowitz[TR2] > The people who work on stallmansupport.org tell me that publishing [16:18] schestowitz[TR2] > about attacks against me is useful publicity for the cancellationists [16:18] schestowitz[TR2] > to recruit with. [16:18] schestowitz[TR2] > [16:18] schestowitz[TR2] > I think you don't want to help them that. Would you please reconsider [16:18] schestowitz[TR2] > what you do? [16:18] schestowitz[TR2] That's a good point. I didn't realise the harms outweigh the benefits here. [16:18] schestowitz[TR2] I'll change accordingly. [16:19] schestowitz[TR2] Re: A request, to help me against cancellation [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] Re: Goose that lays golden eggs [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] > Suppose I have a keen eye for geese with unusual qualities. I spot [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] > a gosling with certain features, purchase it from its owner, give it [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] > the right care and food and watch it grow into a goose that lays [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] > golden eggs. [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] > [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] > If I could do that, I'd be rich. [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] > [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] > In the past Microsoft did something like that. When IBM launched [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] > their personal computer in 1981, Microsoft provided the OS. At that [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] > time Microsoft's main products were language interpreters (mostly [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] > BASIC.) Microsoft purchased the base of the OS (=the gosling) [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] > from another company. MS-DOS (originally IBM-PC-DOS) became a [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] > lucrative product (=the goose that lays golden eggs) and made a [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] > fortune for Microsoft and its founder Gates. [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] > [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_DOS [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] > [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] > I don't understand how Microsoft's recent purchases are helping its [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] > finances. It's like buying a goose only to discover that it lays [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] > but few eggs while consuming much corn. The new owner loses money [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] > this way. [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] > [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] > Is there some clever way to use the hungry goose that lays few eggs to [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] > make farm accounts look better? [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] > [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] > I don't understand this well. Can you explain? [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] -- [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] Let me first check if this is accurate history of IBM and Microsoft. [16:23] *TechBN has quit (connection closed) [16:23] *TechBN (~b0t@iijacan2vrgta.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [16:23] -TechBN/#boycottnovell-Failed to load module HelloWorld. Reason: Not found! [16:23] -TechBN/#boycottnovell-Module HelloWorld has been removed until restarted! ● May 11 [20:57] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [20:57] *amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!)