Point of view - (Ke Simo translation / original Road East / Di.) [Copyright] article Road East: Trap virtual space "2000 Blue Forest http://www.lslnet.com at 21:55 on May 22 Author It is only limited to the author himself, and there is no relationship with the French National Normal University. The article is protected by intellectual property law. Allow copying, reprinting, reprinting, but premise is reproduced on full-text dripping. And the person can not serve Microsoft and their subsidiaries. Microsoft can apply for a single-line copying license to the author, and the price will have the author unilaterally. If the copyright order is violated, it will give a fine of one million francs. [Translator Press] This article is a very wide-ranging vocabulary of Microsoft on the Internet, the author is a computer system, and is now working in the Computer Department of the 7th University of Paris, France. Original text has been translated into English, German, Spanish and Italian, can be found at http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~dicosmo /. I. Introduction During Christmas, I was shocked by the media world covered by the media. "Multimedia", "World Wide Web", "Internet" These hipster vocabulary and their partial organisms are complacent after the rain. In these newspapers, magazines and those imperative "experts" eyes, if you don't have a brand new, expensive, you can bring you into the multicolored virtual space, you are not a happy person. We are always listening to an eternal teachings: there is only one computer in the world, and it is called PC. Of course, it must be the PC installed in the Intel chip, and there is only an indispensable software in the world - Microsoft production of Window Series (everyone simply lazy to distinguish between "operating systems" and "application software", the Window97 said by the media is actually Window95 bundled Word, Excel and other office software, known as office97 things) . What is more strange is still behind, today Americans have begun to wake up from the long hibernation, realize that these two super multinational companies have a hidden face: they use their own monopoly status, killing countless product performance is much higher than themselves s company. And our France is thick and shameless to win the pets to these two Torares. I admire Ralph Nader (brave stand out to protect the interests of consumers, making the US General Motor Company withdraw the unsafe car produced), admire the US Department of Justice's prosecution of Microsoft, and admire the American people's strong reverberation: United States The famous pro-soft CNN TV has made public opinion online. There are the vast majority of netizens to support the Ministry of Justice, and CNN has stopped this survey, and the results have to be announced in countless netizens.
However, the French people still slept in Microsoft's gentle cradle. They dreamed of a kind tricks to distribute free WINDOW95 to all school countryside. He sincerely helped France to make up for technology; they smiled and looked at the sky The color screen shows an relieved information, telling the user that a certain process a certain process has caused a certain exception. Of course, this is just your own operation, not a Window error; they never ask in this dream. A computer used by the Humanity and a few times more than a few times more than a few decades ago, and several times the PC, after the Microsoft's office97 is installed, why not handle the correct handling only one Page information? Second, Chinese medicine libraries and brainwash I have had a chance to experience what extent to fall in French people. The ridiculous need to be the story on the train. A portable computer (a price can be high at a car, can be placed in the PC in the bag, usually used to play poker) as the big brother, especially in the train plane. Next to my seat is a very friendly, kind gentleman, I look at him, I know that he is a young and has an engineer. He is running that a comic software (waiting for me, I explain why I evaluated this software) "DEFRAG". A beautiful matrix is displayed on the screen, there are many small squares that are shining, run around, and the hard drives have a wonderful sound. I really can't help my desire (I hope that this gentleman will see my article. Don't revenge. After praising some of his machine, I put it stupid and stupid. Ask him, this beautiful software is doing, why Isn't my portable machine? With nearly mercy ("This poor guy doesn't even have this software!") He told me that this is a high-top procedure that allows your computer to add your hard disk to re-"arrange neat." He tells me the Microsoft's manual like a back poem: When you use the hard disk every time, the disk will gradually "broken", the speed of the computer will decline, so you will run "DEFRAG" from time to time, Let the hard drives are in an orderly manner, intact as early. At this time, I took out my own laptop, and the upper is Linux (a free, performance, Unix system developed by thousands of people). I am full of confusion that my hard drive on this machine is always in order to use, and the more I use it, the more memory is. Our engineers are a bit awkward, he replies to me: he uses the system is the latest version of Window95, which is the world's largest software company products. "You must be wrong in which place!" He said. I started to tell him what is called disk fragmentation, trying to use the easiest metaphor to let him forget that Microsoft will infused his poisoning publicity. Now I will introduce you to the conversation of our two hours. You probably know that all data exists in a computer's hard drive.
This hard disk is like a huge Chinese medicine library, with thousands of small drawers, each small drawer has the same capacity (typically 512 bytes). Today's computer has millions of such drawers. If your file is stored in an adjacent set of drawers, the speed of access is much faster than the four squares of the warehouse (called "disk fragmentation"). This is not difficult to understand, you will encounter in your daily life, such as you have stored your own shoes: If they are placed in the same box, it is convenient. We all know that a well-known warehouse is more than seven tall grocery. The remaining problem is how to store these data. Now I am trying to be a minister of a country. I have to put my millions of materials in a huge, with a few million drawers, like the above explains, you certainly want to make every material as possible Place near a set of drawers. You specially hire a female secretary to distract this matter, there are two candidates, their work methods are very different. The first method is this: After a piece of information is completed, she cleared the document, when the new file arrived, she first divided them into small pieces consistent with the drawer, put them at the first one. I can find the empty drawer. You ask her to do this, is not a bit chaos, next time I want to find this material is not costly? She tells you that it doesn't matter, you can hire a few young people when you have a few young people! The second female secretary works: she always has a form in her hand, knowing how many empty drawers in the place, whenever the new file arrives, she first checks the form of the hand, put the new file Go to the adjacent drawer in a sufficient quantity. Such a large cabinet is always in an orderly manner. No one will doubt this minister will hire the second secretary. Speaking of this, our engineer nodded. At this time, it is very easy to explain him, and the WINDOW95's practice is the first female secretary. She needs a few young people to organize the ministerial Daguai (with "defrag"). LINUX's document management is like the excellent female secretary, she doesn't have to organize what! When the train arrived, this young man is very unhappy. People have always told him "Defrag" can "accelerate the operation of the computer", now I know that it is the speed that is Window minus his machine! In fact, effective use of memory is an old problem, which has been properly solved for a long time (UNIX starts to hire the good secretary in 1984). There is also more than "defrag", disgusting things, there is no time to tell you those small stories. Microsoft has a merit to "scandisk", which is used to patch hard drives. It gives you a lot of difficult to understand, and the results are often destroyed for two nets, and the data can still be saved before using it.
This kind of thing will not only happen in the UNIX system, but the technology teaches in the university's computer course ten years ago. "Defrag" and more evil "scandisk" are enough to let everyone throw Microsoft's system into garbage. However, in Microsoft's brain-made publicity and education and our own flourishing, France is preparing to change all bank computer systems to Microsoft products, and more, use these things to educate our next generation. It is using this large-scale business operation. Some companies have successfully said their fatal disadvantages, so that everyone is unswerving. Many truly technologies, you can make these stupid things, expose their ghosts, let those so-called "experts" dumbs are silent. There is a strange fact: On the one hand, there is no serious computer expert to publish an article on the magazine that is advertised for computer books. They are not willing to let their own names and those who sell dogs. Under the support of the scientific foundation, with the sponsor of each commercial company, these companies are more compensated in these places, so they don't have anyone to share with them, and they will say a few fair words. Third, the information tax, but Wintel (US media's general name of Microsoft and Intel) is in progress, the monopoly of France and the world computer industry has arrived when it is no longer silent, and there is no excuse to allow us to be drunk. Dream. This is not only "clearly knows that there is a high level of products, it is rather to endure an inferior high-tech": The Video 2000 and Betamax of the diamond in the year are excellent than the current VHS (video record mechanism). The current problem is our own government's monopoly on the field of information, and only Wintel from it will benefit. I will definitely know what I want to say later: I have successfully charged the "monopolistic tax" in the past few years: selling the monopolistic tax in our absolute advantage, carrying the consumer The veritable extortion, because you can only buy something from it. The amount of this tax is huge, and the viciousness is that it is secretly flowing out of our European community, not only does not create any national wealth, but also plays the role of destruction. Let's take a look at this monopoliar than a year, and the day after the day, it has a threat to everyone's daily economic life. In a particular field of computers, the company that is especially particularly terrible for companies that have no moral guidelines. Let's take a look at their "legal" and reasonable behavior. Fourth, the uniqueness of the software, every purchase of a PC, it is equal to the Microsoft, in order to figure out this problem, we should first know the basic facts below, computer technology and other high-tech are different: copy software costs The cost is low. The development of a software may cost, but once it is made, it can be copied by a few dollars, or downloaded from the increasingly declining of the fees, its channels and forms and software itself, quality millions irrelevant.
Only one thing is not overlooked, that is, it is called "carrier". For example, thousands of sheets of manual, dozens of disks (when you are unfortunate, there is no CD system). But this should find a solution to reduce the cost of this cost, but it is reversed to attack this position. You may have already noticed that when you buy a lot of software from the supermarket, you find that there is no software is a complete manual, and the charge is only a few pages of commentary. Of course, if you are willing, you can take yourself dozens, and you can download these thousands of sheets of paper from the Internet. I even met a famous Japanese company that produced laptop (not to point its name), simply did not give you, and put all software in the hard drive. I have to buy dozens of disks, like playing modern music, and give them a copy. We can now say that copying a software cost fee is almost zero for publishers. Another uniqueness of the software is its legal rights. Rough thinking, the truth, no hurray, like art, the software is intricate, removing the "high-tech crystal" of thousands of households, should be protected by law (all software industry is self-name For "Press"). But you can't find a legal provision, stipulate that a software must complete a certain job, or have a certain function, even if it is said that the white word black word written clearly, it has the right to not guarantee it. This kind of thing is still in a novel or a piece of oil painting. It is unreasonable for a software. In fact, this is true: You can check your sewer or electrician at court, but you have no right. To accuse Microsoft's products, say their things do not comply with production processes, and the feature of the manual boast does not match. More maliciously, Microsoft has no responsibility for the disaster caused by them. We can repeat an example: If your son is listening to a rock music dish, you quarrel with you, you smash the Chinese Ming Dynasty porcelain at home, you do not have any rights to accuse it. Singer. But if you have 200m business information in your hard drive, you have destroyed ScriSkisk by Window95, why don't you have the right to accomplish Microsoft? You fully have the ability to prove in any fair court: As early as the 1970s, humans have mastered the necessary technologies and have been published in the city, which allows you to lose 200M. The original code of the AT & T of this technology is not bought by your Microsoft? Conversely, you have reasonable reason to sue your electricity installation company, they went to the wooden wall of your home (Europe think that this installation method is illegal). If your software is from the hand of engineers writing programs in their own garage, these two uniqueness are still in the same weekend. Things happened to this funds reached an astronomical figure, across the super company in the European and American mainland. This "diplomatic exemption" does not use much for small software publishers. All large industries can order them to complete the prescribed instructions, pay according to the labor, and punish it. But these guarantees are impossible for an ordinary consumer and most of the small and medium-sized enterprises, Microsoft's "publishing house" can make you close closes in a few weeks.
Like the young people who have encountered on the train, we have begun to feel behind this flowered green virtual world, and there is a darkness that cannot be kept. This kind of charity company, this self-prison is a software manufacturer station in the peak of world technology and free trade, and it is a bit different from the Santa Claus in our impression. We are now just a small paragraph in the dark side of Microsoft's planet, and more "brilliant" is still behind. V. Hardware producers fall into the monopoly of Microsoft and help it save a variety of business expenses, such as technical consultation, sales and after-sales service. You always want: Although Microsoft is not obliged to help you install the system, but in order to keep the market, should it take the initiative to help you? You don't have to worry for Microsoft. It has long thought about it, I recorded a section of the WINDOW95 user agreement text: 6. Technical consultation. Microsoft Group and its subsidiaries are not obligated to provide any technical consultation, and users can ask the computer manufacturer to help. Tiangle seamless, right? It retracts all the tasks to computer producers. Although the latter has nothing to do with "Scandisk", the system crashes, the hard disk destroys these tragedy, but it has to be economically affected. (I am a little bit one or two: In order to install Window95 on my Japanese laptop, I gave this company several times, I didn't point to it, this time is not ignored) if Window95 is not overbearing Holding monopoly, computer vendors will agree to see such provisions? This is the same for businessmen who sell channels. Hardware producers, people who sell to our machines must pay from their own pockets: they have to pay labor, prepare Window95 on your machine. We can also find more strokes: Buy Window95 from the Internet. This is really thinking, you will pay the software, the phone call is going to download (see the current Office, you will know this is a small expenditure), and the cost of selling the publisher is reduced to true Zero crang zero life! You are still in question, why the US Some Members suggested not to taxing electronic network trade, this is the reason! Summarize: If I am Microsoft, and I just want to sell anything from any restrictions, no one can sue my software quality, because of this, I don't have to put it. Energy is used to improve my products, and the expense of each of my software is a zero, my price can be raised. Hardware is constantly changing, while Microsoft's things are only weak, and the new version can also increase prices.
95 years of Window95 starting price 800 francs have become 1270 francs. I am doing a very bad business business. There is a very interesting question. Ordinary people will not pass the computer, then these large enterprises, national agencies, communication media, etc. Talents, and why they don't use their rights, refuse to choose Microsoft's things? In order to answer this question, we can't let the swords in the newspapers, magazines sell dog skin plaster, although they have unneasable responsibilities. We should hit a flashlight in the back of the huge commercial structure of Microsoft, you can find that there are many behaviors that are illegal! Unfortunately, there is no one in our French in the media, there is no criticism of criticism, and it is not the attention of national decision-making staff. This is the real reason. Sixth, the country of scientific fools in order to make things clear, we now forget to have forgot these things in computers, software, and hardware. We have been telling that these things are essential, but it is also unbearable. That is, we don't have to have your own point of view on this matter, because someone said to you: "This thing is too complicated, listening to the expert choice!" A famous magazine in the United States, simply playing such a slogan : Byte, Because The Experts Decide! (Byte, because the experts decided!) We put these so-called "experts" first on the side, come to visit the "scientific fool of scientific fool" I depicted (you will understand soon, this is not the country of fantasy, It is a country that is in existence). There is a company in this country, and we call him macropress (referred to as MP later). At a point, MP got the control of all printing plants on the Earth. It is not responsible for publishing newspapers, only printing, with it, only it has a copyright-owned font. Suddenly, in the cheers of the song dance, MP announced that MP announced that it invented a new font that allowed your newspaper to printed more modern and beautiful.
All newspapers have been printed with this font called Klingons (Klingons is an alien in the movie [Star Trek], so that every reader has to buy a special magnifying glass invented by MP, in order to see New newspaper. The magnifying glass is in the store, and the cost of sales is the newspaper publishing house. The people smiled and rushed to tell, and the man was in hand. Under this huge success, MP starts regularly changing their fonts, which is first changed every year, and later exchanges every six months. Old magnifying glass can't see new newspapers, you have to go to the money to replace it into new. At this time, I came to a smart competitor. It found a good way to make money: make a mini magnifying glass than the MP price, and also sold to everyone. But all stores and MP have a unsitial contract, not selling something else. More unlucky is: MP officially prosecute each other, the charges added are the other Klingons fonts to produce mini magnifying glass, as a result, MP winning this lawsuit! Seven,. . . It's not far from us, you might want to say: Who is not a fool, how can I be deceived? But you know that the country of science fool has come to us. Two years ago, I applied for funding to the European Community Science and Technology, inviting an visiting scholar to come to our laboratory. To this end, I have to fill in the special form. Some people tell me the best way to download from the Internet, the address is: WWW. Cordis. Lu. It takes a few days from the post office. I downloaded a file called Toto. DOC is written by Word software in a certain version of WINDOW95 in a certain version. It is to use Klingons fonts. "No problem!" I thought, our laboratory exactly an apple, there is a Word6.0 magnifying glass, which is the latest version, and the product of the same company. This sentence is that 10 o'clock in the morning, it is a big shock, after ten minutes of conversion, Apple's Word6.0 put the machine all, I have to turn off the machine, throw away Just working.
