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The Microsoft-English Dictionary 1.5
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| Legal, Marketing, and Internet Community Terms
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| "BSD License" - (1)(n) - A form open source license that is acceptable to
| Microsoft because it permits Microsoft to integrate BSD licensed products
| and charge money for them without releasing source code (e.g. the Windows
| 95 TCP/IP stack). (Stross.)
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| "Cancer" - (1)(n) - Microsoft metaphor describing Linux and the open
| source software movement. In reality, the term best describes Microsoft's
| own products, starting off small and then growing, spreading, and usually
| having negative effects on its host, often requiring software "doctors"
| and utilities to restore or recover such problems. Like cancer in the
| human body, many hosts have been disabled or killed by such organisims.
| See also "Swap Files" and "Temp Files."
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| "Community Service" - (1)(v) - Microsoft process of flooding K-12 schools
| with its products - under the guise of 'community service' - that costs
| the schools very little but creates legions of adults that only know
| Microsoft products, thus creating thousands of new, paying users. (2)
| (v) - The process used by Microsoft to 'donate' software to schools but
| not provide information on if, when, or how recipients will be forced to
| upgrade or license future products, thus trapping more educational
| institutions in Microsoft's grip. (Lewis)
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| "Consent Decree" - (1)(n) - Court orders requiring a company to behave in
| a certain manner, usually as part of a court-ordered punishment. (2)(n) -
| Something akin to a "no-no note" that Microsoft routinely chooses to
| ignore while proceeding with its overly-aggressive business practices.
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| "Cross-Platform" - (1)(n) - Industry standard definition for a product
| that runs on multiple computing environments (See "Platform"). (2)(n) -
| Microsoft's marketing term used to mean a product that runs on any of
| Microsoft's 'platforms.' (e.g., Microsoft's Java is 'cross-platform'
| since it runs on Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME, and XP.)
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