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No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server

Started byNomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com>
First post2018-09-09 00:32 +0200
Last post2018-09-09 23:54 +0800
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  No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2018-09-09 00:32 +0200
    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-09-09 17:19 +1200
      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-09-09 11:26 -0400
        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> - 2018-11-06 09:14 -0500
          Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-06 23:23 -0500
      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Arlen Holder <arlenholder@nospam.net> - 2018-09-09 18:17 +0000
        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-09-09 11:50 -0700
          Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server anon <noreply@mixnym.net> - 2018-09-10 15:26 -0500
            Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-09-10 13:34 -0700
            Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-10 16:39 -0400
              Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-09-10 17:34 -0700
            Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server anon <noreply@mixnym.net> - 2018-09-10 16:56 -0500
              Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-09-11 13:34 +1200
                Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-09-10 18:39 -0700
                  Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-09-11 16:35 +1200
                    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-11 06:51 -0500
                      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-09-12 08:41 +1200
                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-09-11 14:42 -0700
                          Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Rene Lamontagne <rlamont@shaw.ca> - 2018-09-11 16:51 -0500
                            Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-09-11 14:55 -0700
                    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-09-11 06:21 -0700
                      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-09-12 08:46 +1200
                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-09-11 14:47 -0700
                          Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-09-12 13:47 +1200
                            Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-09-12 06:51 -0700
                    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> - 2018-11-06 09:21 -0500
                      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Mark Lloyd <not@mail.invalid> - 2018-11-06 10:48 -0600
                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-06 11:59 -0400
                Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server anon <noreply@mixnym.net> - 2018-09-10 20:39 -0500
                Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2018-09-10 23:20 -0400
                  Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-09-11 16:30 +1200
                    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-11 14:59 +0000
                      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2018-09-11 17:08 -0500
                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-12 00:28 +0000
                          Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2018-09-11 20:46 -0500
                            Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-09-12 18:17 +1200
                              Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2018-09-12 19:34 -0500
                                Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-13 13:59 +0000
                                  Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2018-09-13 16:57 -0500
                                    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-13 22:39 +0000
                                      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Elden <usenet@moondog.org> - 2018-09-14 20:13 -0700
                                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-09-15 11:54 +0000
                                          Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-09-15 08:41 -0400
                                          Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-15 16:04 +0000
                                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-15 15:55 +0000
                                      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> - 2018-11-06 09:24 -0500
                                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2018-11-06 15:53 +0000
                                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-06 12:29 -0500
                                          Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-06 12:34 -0400
                                            Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-06 12:51 -0500
                                              Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-06 12:55 -0400
                                                Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-06 13:35 -0500
                                                  Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2018-11-06 11:17 -0800
                                                    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-06 17:51 -0500
                                                      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2018-11-06 15:05 -0800
                                                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-06 20:00 -0500
                                                          Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2018-11-06 17:29 -0800
                                                            OT: About OS/2 (Was:Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server) Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-07 09:16 -0500
                                                              Re: OT: About OS/2 (Was:Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server) SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-07 09:58 -0500
                                                              Re: OT: About OS/2 Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2018-11-09 19:07 +0000
                                                                Re: OT: About OS/2 Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-09 14:25 -0500
                                                      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nobody <nobodysaysitalldoesntit@nobo.org> - 2018-11-06 18:14 -0500
                                                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-06 20:01 -0500
                                              Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2018-11-06 19:06 +0000
                                                Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-06 14:13 -0500
                                              Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends   it to Chinese server "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2018-11-07 18:58 +0000
                                                Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-07 18:04 -0500
                                                  Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> - 2018-11-07 17:13 -0800
                                                  Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2018-11-08 14:58 -0800
                                                    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-08 21:19 -0500
                                                    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-08 21:25 -0500
                                            Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-07 09:25 -0500
                                              Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-07 09:33 -0400
                                                Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-07 10:44 -0500
                                                  Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-07 11:13 -0400
                                                    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2018-11-07 08:43 -0800
                                                      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-07 11:46 -0400
                                                    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-07 11:51 -0500
                                                      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-07 12:05 -0400
                                                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-07 12:36 -0500
                                                          Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-07 13:11 -0400
                                                            Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-07 12:41 -0600
                                                            Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-07 14:23 -0500
                                                              Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 00:33 -0400
                                                                Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-08 09:20 -0500
                                                                  Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 10:49 -0400
                                                                  Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2018-11-08 10:13 -0800
                                                                Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-08 07:45 -0700
                                                                  Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-08 14:12 -0500
                                                                    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 14:22 -0500
                                                                    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-08 13:22 -0700
                                                                      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 16:30 -0500
                                                                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-08 19:00 -0700
                                                                          Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 21:52 -0500
                                                                            Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-08 20:10 -0700
                                                                              Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 22:16 -0500
                                                                                Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-08 20:18 -0700
                                                                    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-08 21:09 -0500
                                                              Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2018-11-08 10:06 -0800
                                                                Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-08 15:00 -0500
                                                                  Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2018-11-08 12:37 -0800
                                                                    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-08 19:08 -0500
                                                                      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2018-11-08 16:19 -0800
                                                                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 21:52 -0500
                                                                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-09 14:31 -0500
                                                                          Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2018-11-09 11:56 -0800
                                                                            Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-09 15:51 -0500
                                                                          Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-09 17:11 -0500
                                                                            Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-09 19:25 -0500
                                                                      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 21:52 -0500
                                                                  Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 16:30 -0500
                                                                  Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-08 21:12 -0500
                                                            Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-07 17:46 -0500
                                                              Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 00:33 -0400
                                                                Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-08 08:58 -0500
                                                                  Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 10:49 -0400
                                                                    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-08 21:03 -0500
                                                                      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 21:52 -0500
                                                                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-08 22:13 -0500
                                                                          Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-08 20:22 -0700
                                                                      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-08 20:06 -0700
                                                                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 22:19 -0500
                                                                          Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-09 21:29 -0700
                                                                            Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-10 08:38 -0500
                                                                              Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-10 09:53 -0500
                                                                                Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-10 11:13 -0700
                                                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-07 14:19 -0500
                                                          Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-07 13:51 -0700
                                                            Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 00:33 -0400
                                                              Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-08 07:47 -0700
                                                                Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 10:49 -0400
                                                                  Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-08 09:15 -0700
                                                                    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 11:57 -0400
                                                                      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-08 11:09 -0700
                                                                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 13:23 -0500
                                                                          Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-08 12:14 -0700
                                                              Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2018-11-08 10:10 -0800
                                                          Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 00:33 -0400
                                                            Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-08 08:48 -0500
                                                              Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-08 09:33 -0500
                                                                Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 10:49 -0400
                                                                  Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 11:56 -0600
                                                                    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 13:23 -0500
                                                                      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-08 21:07 -0500
                                                                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 21:52 -0500
                                                                          Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-08 22:06 -0500
                                                                          Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-08 20:11 -0700
                                                                            Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 22:19 -0500
                                                                              Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-08 20:32 -0700
                                                                                Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Spooge <sp00ge@goop.invalid> - 2018-11-09 09:54 +0000
                                                                                  Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-09 11:48 -0500
                                                                                    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-09 11:45 -0700
                                                                                    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Spooge <sp00ge@goop.invalid> - 2018-11-09 21:35 +0000
                                                                                  Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-09 12:01 -0700
                                                                                    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Spooge <sp00ge@goop.invalid> - 2018-11-09 21:33 +0000
                                                                                      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-09 15:13 -0700
                                                                                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Spooge <sp00ge@goop.invalid> - 2018-11-09 22:19 +0000
                                                                                          Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-09 15:23 -0700
                                                                                            Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Spooge <sp00ge@goop.invalid> - 2018-11-09 22:29 +0000
                                                                                              Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-09 15:46 -0700
                                                                                                Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Spooge <sp00ge@goop.invalid> - 2018-11-09 23:27 +0000
                                                                                                  Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-09 16:50 -0700
                                                                                                    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Spooge <sp00ge@goop.invalid> - 2018-11-10 00:19 +0000
                                                                                                      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-09 21:29 -0700
                                                                                                      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-10 09:40 -0500
                                                                                                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-10 11:17 -0700
                                                                                      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-09 17:59 -0500
                                                                                Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-09 15:09 -0500
                                                                                  Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-09 15:20 -0700
                                                                                    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-09 19:41 -0500
                                                                                      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Spooge <sp00ge@goop.invalid> - 2018-11-10 00:51 +0000
                                                                                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-09 21:30 -0500
                                                                                          Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Spooge <sp00ge@goop.invalid> - 2018-11-10 18:14 +0000
                                                                                            Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-10 11:17 -0700
                                                                                              Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Spooge <sp00ge@goop.invalid> - 2018-11-10 18:27 +0000
                                                                                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-09 21:26 -0700
                                                                                          Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Spooge <sp00ge@goop.invalid> - 2018-11-10 18:22 +0000
                                                                                            Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-10 18:56 -0700
                                                                                              Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Spooge <sp00ge@goop.invalid> - 2018-11-11 12:09 +0000
                                                                                                Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-11 16:08 +0000
                                                                                                  Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Spooge <sp00ge@goop.invalid> - 2018-11-11 16:38 +0000
                                                                                                    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-11 17:26 +0000
                                                                                                      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Spooge <sp00ge@goop.invalid> - 2018-11-11 18:01 +0000
                                                                                                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-11 11:30 -0700
                                                                                                          Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Spooge <sp00ge@goop.invalid> - 2018-11-11 18:53 +0000
                                                                                                            Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-11 12:54 -0700
                                                                                                              Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Spooge <sp00ge@goop.invalid> - 2018-11-11 21:03 +0000
                                                                                                                Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-11 14:52 -0700
                                                                                                                  Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Spooge <sp00ge@goop.invalid> - 2018-11-11 22:26 +0000
                                                                                                                    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-11 15:39 -0700
                                                                                                                      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-11 19:26 -0500
                                                                                                                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Spooge <sp00ge@goop.invalid> - 2018-11-12 02:43 +0000
                                                                                                                          Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-11 20:45 -0700
                                                                                                                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-11 20:43 -0700
                                                                                                                          Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-12 09:03 -0500
                                                                                                                            Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-12 12:08 -0500
                                                                                                                              Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-12 13:40 -0500
                                                                                                                                Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-12 18:33 -0500
                                                                                                                                  Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-13 08:53 -0700
                                                                                                                          Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Spooge <sp00ge@goop.invalid> - 2018-11-12 16:35 +0000
                                                                                                                            Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-12 14:22 -0700
                                                                                                                              Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Spooge <sp00ge@goop.invalid> - 2018-11-12 22:00 +0000
                                                                                                                                Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-13 08:51 -0700
                                                                                                                                  Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Spooge <sp00ge@goop.invalid> - 2018-11-13 23:49 +0000
                                                                                                                                    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-13 19:51 -0700
                                                                                                                                      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Spooge <sp00ge@goop.invalid> - 2018-11-15 13:22 +0000
                                                                                                                                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-15 09:27 -0500
                                                                                                                                          Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Spooge <sp00ge@goop.invalid> - 2018-11-15 16:35 +0000
                                                                                                                                            Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-15 12:09 -0500
                                                                                                                                              Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Spooge <sp00ge@goop.invalid> - 2018-11-15 17:17 +0000
                                                                                                                                                Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-15 12:49 -0500
                                                                                                                                                  Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Spooge <sp00ge@goop.invalid> - 2018-11-15 18:01 +0000
                                                                                                                                                    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-15 13:23 -0500
                                                                                                                                                      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Spooge <sp00ge@goop.invalid> - 2018-11-15 18:36 +0000
                                                                                                                                                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Spooge <sp00ge@goop.invalid> - 2018-11-15 19:01 +0000
                                                                                                                                                          Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-15 14:32 -0500
                                                                                                                                                            Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Spooge <sp00ge@goop.invalid> - 2018-11-15 19:47 +0000
                                                                                                                                                              Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-15 15:52 -0500
                                                                                                                                                                Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Spooge <sp00ge@goop.invalid> - 2018-11-15 21:09 +0000
                                                                                                                                                            Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Spooge <sp00ge@goop.invalid> - 2018-11-15 20:02 +0000
                                                                                                                                                    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-15 13:49 -0500
                                                                                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-10 09:48 -0500
                                                                                          Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-10 11:16 -0700
                                                                                          Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Spooge <sp00ge@goop.invalid> - 2018-11-10 18:20 +0000
                                                                                            Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-10 18:57 -0700
                                                                                            Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-11 09:06 -0500
                                                                                              Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Spooge <sp00ge@goop.invalid> - 2018-11-11 17:11 +0000
                                                                                                Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-11 17:26 +0000
                                                                                      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-09 21:27 -0700
                                                                            Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-09 14:57 -0500
                                                                              Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-09 15:21 -0700
                                                                    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-08 14:57 -0500
                                                                      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Rene Lamontagne <rlamont@shaw.ca> - 2018-11-08 15:05 -0600
                                                                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 16:30 -0500
                                                                          Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Rene Lamontagne <rlamont@shaw.ca> - 2018-11-08 15:35 -0600
                                                                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-08 19:09 -0500
                                                                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2018-11-09 14:35 +0000
                                                                      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 16:30 -0500
                                                                  Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-08 14:50 -0500
                                                                    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 14:23 -0600
                                                                      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 16:30 -0500
                                                                      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-08 19:02 -0500
                                                                      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-08 19:04 -0700
                                                                    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 16:30 -0500
                                                                      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-08 19:39 -0500
                                                                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 21:52 -0500
                                                                          Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-09 14:50 -0500
                                                                            Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Ken Blake <Ken@invalid.news.com> - 2018-11-09 13:19 -0700
                                                                              Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-09 17:11 -0500
                                                                            Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-09 17:11 -0500
                                                                              Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-09 19:38 -0500
                                                                                Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-09 20:08 -0500
                                                                                  Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-09 21:33 -0500
                                                                                    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-09 22:22 -0500
                                                                                      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-10 10:02 -0500
                                                                                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-10 13:55 -0500
                                                                              Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-09 19:47 -0500
                                                                                Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-09 20:08 -0500
                                                                                  Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-09 21:45 -0500
                                                                                    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-09 22:22 -0500
                                                                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2018-11-09 14:53 +0000
                                                                          Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-09 10:20 -0500
                                                                          Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-09 09:29 -0600
                                                                            Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-09 15:13 -0500
                                                                Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-08 20:56 -0500
                                                              Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 10:49 -0400
                                                                Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-08 20:57 -0500
                                                            Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-08 09:05 -0500
                                                          Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2018-11-08 12:35 -0800
                                                            Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 16:30 -0500
                                                              Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-08 18:56 -0700
                                                                Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 21:52 -0500
                                                                  Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-08 20:11 -0700
                                                      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-07 12:41 -0500
                                                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-07 13:11 -0400
                                                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-07 11:47 -0700
                                                    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-07 12:31 -0500
                                                      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-07 13:11 -0400
                                                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-07 14:31 -0500
                                                          Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 00:33 -0400
                                                            Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2018-11-08 09:11 -0500
                                                        Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-07 17:55 -0500
                                                          Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 00:33 -0400
                            Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-12 16:11 +0000
                              Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2018-09-12 14:10 -0400
                                Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-12 18:35 +0000
    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2018-09-09 23:54 +0800

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#119300

FromAlan Baker <nunya@ness.biz>
Date2018-11-08 12:37 -0800
Message-ID<ps26lj$11te$2@gioia.aioe.org>
In reply to#119295
On 2018-11-08 12:00 PM, Wolf K wrote:
> On 2018-11-08 13:06, Alan Baker wrote:
>> On 2018-11-07 11:23 AM, Wolf K wrote:
>>> On 2018-11-07 12:11, nospam wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>> microsoft word and excel were on a mac long before they were on 
>>>> windows.
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> https://www.reference.com/technology/history-microsoft-word-534eb9f5980d955 
>>>
>>>
>>
>> The first version of Word for the Mac was released in 1985.
>>
>> The first version for Windows didn't arrive until 1989, and very 
>> nearly the end of 1989 at that (November).
> 
>  From the cuted souirce:
> 
> "Microsoft Word, first released in 1983 as "Multi-Tool Word," is a word 
> processor available as a standalone product and as a component in the 
> Microsoft Office suite. The first version of Microsoft Word was based on 
> the framework of Bravo, the world's first word processor with a 
> graphical user interface.
> 
> Following the renaming of Multi-Tool Word to Microsoft Word, Microsoft 
> released its first version of Word in October 1983 for the IBM PC. "
> 
> Seems like some people want to insist that the first Word, a non-WYSIWYG 
> program, was not Word.
> 
> Well, if you want to quibble, the quibbling contest is over that-away.
> 

Are you incapable of READING?


"microsoft word and excel were on a mac long before they were on WINDOWS."

Do you see the WORD you're consistently MISSING?

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#119314

FromWolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca>
Date2018-11-08 19:08 -0500
Message-ID<me4FD.963398$Vl2.327698@fx46.iad>
In reply to#119300
On 2018-11-08 15:37, Alan Baker wrote:
> On 2018-11-08 12:00 PM, Wolf K wrote:
>> On 2018-11-08 13:06, Alan Baker wrote:
>>> On 2018-11-07 11:23 AM, Wolf K wrote:
>>>> On 2018-11-07 12:11, nospam wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>>> microsoft word and excel were on a mac long before they were on 
>>>>> windows.
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> https://www.reference.com/technology/history-microsoft-word-534eb9f5980d955 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> The first version of Word for the Mac was released in 1985.
>>>
>>> The first version for Windows didn't arrive until 1989, and very 
>>> nearly the end of 1989 at that (November).
>>
>>  From the cuted souirce:
>>
>> "Microsoft Word, first released in 1983 as "Multi-Tool Word," is a 
>> word processor available as a standalone product and as a component in 
>> the Microsoft Office suite. The first version of Microsoft Word was 
>> based on the framework of Bravo, the world's first word processor with 
>> a graphical user interface.
>>
>> Following the renaming of Multi-Tool Word to Microsoft Word, Microsoft 
>> released its first version of Word in October 1983 for the IBM PC. "
>>
>> Seems like some people want to insist that the first Word, a 
>> non-WYSIWYG program, was not Word.
>>
>> Well, if you want to quibble, the quibbling contest is over that-away.
>>
> 
> Are you incapable of READING?
> 
> 
> "microsoft word and excel were on a mac long before they were on WINDOWS."
> 
> Do you see the WORD you're consistently MISSING?

Yes, and I think it's not especially relevant. Windows was just DOS with 
a pretty face at the time. But that's a quibble. :-)

I'll grant you that the WYSIWIG version was made for mac-os before it 
was ported to DOS/Windows.

OK?

-- 
Wolf K
kirkwood40.blogspot.com
"Gentics is not genealogy." (Gragham Coop, Ph.D.)

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#119316

FromAlan Baker <nunya@ness.biz>
Date2018-11-08 16:19 -0800
Message-ID<ps2jrc$1mgo$1@gioia.aioe.org>
In reply to#119314
On 2018-11-08 4:08 PM, Wolf K wrote:
> On 2018-11-08 15:37, Alan Baker wrote:
>> On 2018-11-08 12:00 PM, Wolf K wrote:
>>> On 2018-11-08 13:06, Alan Baker wrote:
>>>> On 2018-11-07 11:23 AM, Wolf K wrote:
>>>>> On 2018-11-07 12:11, nospam wrote:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>> microsoft word and excel were on a mac long before they were on 
>>>>>> windows.
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.reference.com/technology/history-microsoft-word-534eb9f5980d955 
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The first version of Word for the Mac was released in 1985.
>>>>
>>>> The first version for Windows didn't arrive until 1989, and very 
>>>> nearly the end of 1989 at that (November).
>>>
>>>  From the cuted souirce:
>>>
>>> "Microsoft Word, first released in 1983 as "Multi-Tool Word," is a 
>>> word processor available as a standalone product and as a component 
>>> in the Microsoft Office suite. The first version of Microsoft Word 
>>> was based on the framework of Bravo, the world's first word processor 
>>> with a graphical user interface.
>>>
>>> Following the renaming of Multi-Tool Word to Microsoft Word, 
>>> Microsoft released its first version of Word in October 1983 for the 
>>> IBM PC. "
>>>
>>> Seems like some people want to insist that the first Word, a 
>>> non-WYSIWYG program, was not Word.
>>>
>>> Well, if you want to quibble, the quibbling contest is over that-away.
>>>
>>
>> Are you incapable of READING?
>>
>>
>> "microsoft word and excel were on a mac long before they were on 
>> WINDOWS."
>>
>> Do you see the WORD you're consistently MISSING?
> 
> Yes, and I think it's not especially relevant. Windows was just DOS with 
> a pretty face at the time. But that's a quibble. :-)

But WORD for Windows was a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PROGRAM that Word for DOS.

> 
> I'll grant you that the WYSIWIG version was made for mac-os before it 
> was ported to DOS/Windows.

It wasn't ported.

> 
> OK?
Sure. But why the HELL did it take so long?

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#119331

Fromnospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Date2018-11-08 21:52 -0500
Message-ID<081120182152362638%nospam@nospam.invalid>
In reply to#119316
In article <ps2jrc$1mgo$1@gioia.aioe.org>, Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz>
wrote:

> >>> Seems like some people want to insist that the first Word, a 
> >>> non-WYSIWYG program, was not Word.
> >>>
> >>> Well, if you want to quibble, the quibbling contest is over that-away.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Are you incapable of READING?
> >>
> >>
> >> "microsoft word and excel were on a mac long before they were on 
> >> WINDOWS."
> >>
> >> Do you see the WORD you're consistently MISSING?
> > 
> > Yes, and I think it's not especially relevant. Windows was just DOS with 
> > a pretty face at the time. But that's a quibble. :-)
> 
> But WORD for Windows was a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PROGRAM that Word for DOS.

which was different than word for mac, all with three different code
bases.

many years later, microsoft tried having a common codebase for the mac
and windows versions with word 6, but that turned out to be a complete
disaster.

> > I'll grant you that the WYSIWIG version was made for mac-os before it 
> > was ported to DOS/Windows.
> 
> It wasn't ported.
> 
> > 
> > OK?
> Sure. But why the HELL did it take so long?

some people just don't get it.

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#119365

FromWolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca>
Date2018-11-09 14:31 -0500
Message-ID<YflFD.143312$Ol2.74793@fx17.iad>
In reply to#119316
On 2018-11-08 19:19, Alan Baker wrote:
> On 2018-11-08 4:08 PM, Wolf K wrote:
[...]
>> I'll grant you that the WYSIWIG version was made for mac-os before it 
>> was ported to DOS/Windows.
> 
> It wasn't ported.

Agreed. "Ported" is one of those words whose technical meaning has been 
hopeless obscured. Hence its use in the cited article.

>>
>> OK?
> Sure. But why the HELL did it take so long?

Dunno. Mebbe because I had other things on what's left of my mind. I've 
been using it for almost 8 decades, so it's getting kinda frazzled.

-- 
Wolf K
kirkwood40.blogspot.com
"Gentics is not genealogy." (Gragham Coop, Ph.D.)

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#119367

FromAlan Baker <nunya@ness.biz>
Date2018-11-09 11:56 -0800
Message-ID<ps4op3$1b88$1@gioia.aioe.org>
In reply to#119365
On 2018-11-09 11:31 AM, Wolf K wrote:
> On 2018-11-08 19:19, Alan Baker wrote:
>> On 2018-11-08 4:08 PM, Wolf K wrote:
> [...]
>>> I'll grant you that the WYSIWIG version was made for mac-os before it 
>>> was ported to DOS/Windows.
>>
>> It wasn't ported.
> 
> Agreed. "Ported" is one of those words whose technical meaning has been 
> hopeless obscured. Hence its use in the cited article.

I'm not at all sorry to say that while it might be "one of those words" 
to you, that doesn't make what the article said any more correct.

And even referring to the what "reference.com" wrote as an "article" is 
seriously devaluing the meaning of that term. I mean, come on: 4 
paragraphs, the last of which is just about the donation of the source 
code? And it gets major facts wrong.

Microsoft was NOT 'the first word processor to introduce the concept of 
"What You See Is What You Get," or WYSIWYG,'.

> 
>>>
>>> OK?
>> Sure. But why the HELL did it take so long?
> 
> Dunno. Mebbe because I had other things on what's left of my mind. I've 
> been using it for almost 8 decades, so it's getting kinda frazzled.

May I suggest slowing down, actually reading what is being said to you, 
and thinking for a moment before you reply.

There is actually no rush to hit "Send", you know.

:-)

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#119373

FromWolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca>
Date2018-11-09 15:51 -0500
Message-ID<JrmFD.650287$cL2.156632@fx43.iad>
In reply to#119367
On 2018-11-09 14:56, Alan Baker wrote:
> May I suggest slowing down, actually reading what is being said to you, 
> and thinking for a moment before you reply.
> 
> There is actually no rush to hit "Send", you know.
> 
> :-)

Touche.

-- 
Wolf K
kirkwood40.blogspot.com
"Gentics is not genealogy." (Gragham Coop, Ph.D.)

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#119377

Fromnospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Date2018-11-09 17:11 -0500
Message-ID<091120181711412249%nospam@nospam.invalid>
In reply to#119365
In article <YflFD.143312$Ol2.74793@fx17.iad>, Wolf K
<wolfmac@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> >> I'll grant you that the WYSIWIG version was made for mac-os before it 
> >> was ported to DOS/Windows.
> > 
> > It wasn't ported.
> 
> Agreed. "Ported" is one of those words whose technical meaning has been 
> hopeless obscured.

its meaning has *not* been obscured. 

> Hence its use in the cited article.

in other words, sloppy reporting, and it's not the only error.

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#119394

FromWolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca>
Date2018-11-09 19:25 -0500
Message-ID<ZzpFD.371638$vJ1.175857@fx05.iad>
In reply to#119377
On 2018-11-09 17:11, nospam wrote:
> In article <YflFD.143312$Ol2.74793@fx17.iad>, Wolf K
> <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
>>>> I'll grant you that the WYSIWIG version was made for mac-os before it
>>>> was ported to DOS/Windows.
>>>
>>> It wasn't ported.
>>
>> Agreed. "Ported" is one of those words whose technical meaning has been
>> hopeless obscured.
> 
> its meaning has *not* been obscured.

For people in the trade, of course not. But you can't control how people 
outside the trade use the word. We don't have an Academie Anglaise to 
police our vocabulary.

>> Hence its use in the cited article.
> 
> in other words, sloppy reporting, and it's not the only error.

Nah, just run-of-the mill writing for a general audience.

No matter how you/I/every tech fulminate agianst it, technical terms' 
meanings become obscured. Technically, words don't have meanings, they 
have uses. When people outside the trade pick up a word, they will use 
it as seems good to them. The odds are that at the very least the term 
will be used with a wider scope. I don't know of a single technical term 
that escaped into the wild world of general usage whose use(s) didn't 
change in one or more ways. We all use words that no longer have their 
original, often technical, meaning. Eg, your use of "sloppy" above. Its 
earliest meaning was "muddy". Even "reporting" meant something other 
than "conveying the news" originally. The original meaning of 
"run-of-the-mill" is now so obscure that most people haven't a clue. 
"Audience" earlier meant "The royal act of listening to a subject's 
petition."

And so it goes.

While I agree that "ported" is the wrong technical term for what was 
actually done, for most people the technical difference between porting 
and building a new code base is irrelevant. The end result is what 
matters to them, so they will use the handiest word to express their 
meaning: what was written to run one OS was somehow rewritten to run on 
another. That's a  meaning with a larger scope than the original, which 
it includes.

You can't win.
You can't break even.
You can't get out of the game.

-- 
Wolf K
kirkwood40.blogspot.com
"Genetics is not genealogy." (Graham Coop, Ph.D.)

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#119329

Fromnospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Date2018-11-08 21:52 -0500
Message-ID<081120182152342522%nospam@nospam.invalid>
In reply to#119314
In article <me4FD.963398$Vl2.327698@fx46.iad>, Wolf K
<wolfmac@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> >> Following the renaming of Multi-Tool Word to Microsoft Word, Microsoft 
> >> released its first version of Word in October 1983 for the IBM PC. "
> >>
> >> Seems like some people want to insist that the first Word, a 
> >> non-WYSIWYG program, was not Word.
> >>
> >> Well, if you want to quibble, the quibbling contest is over that-away.
> >>
> > 
> > Are you incapable of READING?
> > 
> > "microsoft word and excel were on a mac long before they were on WINDOWS."
> > 
> > Do you see the WORD you're consistently MISSING?
> 
> Yes, and I think it's not especially relevant. Windows was just DOS with 
> a pretty face at the time. But that's a quibble. :-)

it's very relevant.

> I'll grant you that the WYSIWIG version was made for mac-os before it 
> was ported to DOS/Windows.

that's what i originally said, except for it being ported, which it was
very clearly not (especially *to* dos), nor did i mention dos.

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#119305

Fromnospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Date2018-11-08 16:30 -0500
Message-ID<081120181630081690%nospam@nospam.invalid>
In reply to#119295
In article <DB0FD.1322538$YL3.766711@fx48.iad>, Wolf K
<wolfmac@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> >>> microsoft word and excel were on a mac long before they were on windows.
> >>
> >>
> >> https://www.reference.com/technology/history-microsoft-word-534eb9f5980d955
> >>  
> > 
> > The first version of Word for the Mac was released in 1985.
> > 
> > The first version for Windows didn't arrive until 1989, and very nearly 
> > the end of 1989 at that (November).
> 
>  From the cuted souirce:
> 
> "Microsoft Word, first released in 1983 as "Multi-Tool Word," is a word 
> processor available as a standalone product and as a component in the 
> Microsoft Office suite. The first version of Microsoft Word was based on 
> the framework of Bravo, the world's first word processor with a 
> graphical user interface.
> 
> Following the renaming of Multi-Tool Word to Microsoft Word, Microsoft 
> released its first version of Word in October 1983 for the IBM PC. "
> 
> Seems like some people want to insist that the first Word, a non-WYSIWYG 
> program, was not Word.

seems like some people, namely you, is fixated on the dos version of
word when dos was *never* *mentioned*.

> Well, if you want to quibble, the quibbling contest is over that-away.

it's not quibbling when you're yapping about irrelevant bits.

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#119326

FromSilverSlimer <silver@slim.er>
Date2018-11-08 21:12 -0500
Message-ID<126FD.234747$X82.72926@fx22.iad>
In reply to#119295
On 2018-11-08 3:00 p.m., Wolf K wrote:
> On 2018-11-08 13:06, Alan Baker wrote:
>> On 2018-11-07 11:23 AM, Wolf K wrote:
>>> On 2018-11-07 12:11, nospam wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>> microsoft word and excel were on a mac long before they were on 
>>>> windows.
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> https://www.reference.com/technology/history-microsoft-word-534eb9f5980d955 
>>>
>>>
>>
>> The first version of Word for the Mac was released in 1985.
>>
>> The first version for Windows didn't arrive until 1989, and very 
>> nearly the end of 1989 at that (November).
> 
>  From the cuted souirce:
> 
> "Microsoft Word, first released in 1983 as "Multi-Tool Word," is a word 
> processor available as a standalone product and as a component in the 
> Microsoft Office suite. The first version of Microsoft Word was based on 
> the framework of Bravo, the world's first word processor with a 
> graphical user interface.
> 
> Following the renaming of Multi-Tool Word to Microsoft Word, Microsoft 
> released its first version of Word in October 1983 for the IBM PC. "
> 
> Seems like some people want to insist that the first Word, a non-WYSIWYG 
> program, was not Word.
> 
> Well, if you want to quibble, the quibbling contest is over that-away.

Found this: <http://toastytech.com/guis/word115.html>


-- 
SilverSlimer
Minds: @silverslimer

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#119231

FromSilverSlimer <silver@slim.er>
Date2018-11-07 17:46 -0500
Message-ID<WWJED.530367$Ac3.259745@fx45.iad>
In reply to#119217
On 2018-11-07 12:11 p.m., nospam wrote:
> In article <SoFED.470277$um3.190179@fx32.iad>, SilverSlimer
> <silver@slim.er> wrote:
> 
>>>> Windows was DOS with a pre-built menu system plus a few simple to use
>>>> settings (such as customising the menus for different users). It was
>>>> essentially useless until 3.x.
>>>
>>> win 3.x was only slightly better than earlier versions. as i said,
>>> windows '95 was when it was actually usable.
>>
>> Not true, essentially since many companies at the time used Windows 3.11
>> for their businesses and some still use it to this day.
> 
> win 3.x was only slightly better than dos. it wasn't until win '95 when
> windows took off because only then was it functionally better than what
> existed before.
> 
> put another way, win '95 caught up to where mac os was a decade earlier.
> 
> microsoft word and excel were on a mac long before they were on windows.

True about the first part, but Windows 95 was actually a much better 
operating system than the Mac OS of the time so they didn't catch up as 
much as they improved upon Apple's archaic design.

>>>> There's more. FWIW, I preferred DOS over Windows, and OS/2 over both.
>>>> I liked Mac OS, but didn't like Apple's unwillingness to permit device
>>>> customisation beyond what they decided was acceptable. A DOS machine,
>>>> and hence Windows, was almost infinitely customisable.
>>>
>>> complete nonsense.
>>>
>>> apple did not stop *anyone* from customizing anything, and in fact, mac
>>> os was designed to be tweaked and modified in all sorts of ways, with
>>> full documentation as to how to do it.
>>>
>>> because of that, a whole category of mac software and hardware existed,
>>> doing things not possible on dos or windows.
>>
>> That must be why Steve Jobs specifically stated that he wanted the Mac
>> to have proprietary ports, no internal expansion slots and an operating
>> system which looked the same no matter whose machine you were using. In
>> other words, that must be why Jobs did the exact opposite of what
>> Wozniak did with the Apple ][ whereupon he insisted on forcing people to
>> upgrade a whole computer to get one or two additional functions.
> 
> he didn't say that, the ports weren't proprietary, and nobody had to
> upgrade a whole computer to get additional functions.

The original Mac line was very much proprietary. Read the line about the 
Macintosh 128k at Wikipedia: 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_128K#Peripherals>

Absolutely none of what the Macintosh included as ports was standard and 
that's one of the many reasons you couldn't just buy any printer and had 
to rely on whatever Apply would ship.

> in fact, the pinouts of the ports were documented in inside macintosh,
> a book available in any bookstore, along with full documentation of mac
> os. *anyone* could buy it, not just developers. the information was not
> secret.
> 
> mac os was *very* customizable. anyone who claims otherwise doesn't
> know what they're talking about, regurgitating the old myths.

You have a very bizarre idea of what proprietary means. It's not closed, 
it's proprietary meaning that it belongs to Apple and is not shared by 
other companies. Proprietary comes from the French word "propriété" 
meaning that it has an owner which, in this case, is Apple. In the same 
way that the Macintosh had proprietary connectors, so did the PCjr and 
the PS/2 in the MCA internal expansion port.

>>>> As was
>>>> Commodore's OS, but that's another story.
>>>
>>> actually, not as much, but the key problem was it had very little
>>> software available compared to mac, dos and windows. software
>>> developers were not interested.
>>
>> In comparison, sure. THAT is a correct statement especially the further
>> users got into the lifespan of a Commodore Amiga machine. However, fewer
>> titles does not translate into a machine being completely ignored by the
>> public or developers either.
> 
> it was mostly ignored. not zero, but close enough.

That's a much fairer assessment.

-- 
SilverSlimer
Proud recipient of special entitlements and fierce adversary of equal rights
Minds: @silverslimer

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#119246

Fromnospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Date2018-11-08 00:33 -0400
Message-ID<081120180033254276%nospam@nospam.invalid>
In reply to#119231
In article <WWJED.530367$Ac3.259745@fx45.iad>, SilverSlimer
<silver@slim.er> wrote:

> >>>> Windows was DOS with a pre-built menu system plus a few simple to use
> >>>> settings (such as customising the menus for different users). It was
> >>>> essentially useless until 3.x.
> >>>
> >>> win 3.x was only slightly better than earlier versions. as i said,
> >>> windows '95 was when it was actually usable.
> >>
> >> Not true, essentially since many companies at the time used Windows 3.11
> >> for their businesses and some still use it to this day.
> > 
> > win 3.x was only slightly better than dos. it wasn't until win '95 when
> > windows took off because only then was it functionally better than what
> > existed before.
> > 
> > put another way, win '95 caught up to where mac os was a decade earlier.
> > 
> > microsoft word and excel were on a mac long before they were on windows.
> 
> True about the first part, but Windows 95 was actually a much better 
> operating system than the Mac OS of the time

no, it definitely wasn't.

> so they didn't catch up as 
> much as they improved upon Apple's archaic design.

mac os wasn't archaic in the least and was well ahead of what existed
at the time.

win95 & win98 still had dos under the hood.

> >>>> There's more. FWIW, I preferred DOS over Windows, and OS/2 over both.
> >>>> I liked Mac OS, but didn't like Apple's unwillingness to permit device
> >>>> customisation beyond what they decided was acceptable. A DOS machine,
> >>>> and hence Windows, was almost infinitely customisable.
> >>>
> >>> complete nonsense.
> >>>
> >>> apple did not stop *anyone* from customizing anything, and in fact, mac
> >>> os was designed to be tweaked and modified in all sorts of ways, with
> >>> full documentation as to how to do it.
> >>>
> >>> because of that, a whole category of mac software and hardware existed,
> >>> doing things not possible on dos or windows.
> >>
> >> That must be why Steve Jobs specifically stated that he wanted the Mac
> >> to have proprietary ports, no internal expansion slots and an operating
> >> system which looked the same no matter whose machine you were using. In
> >> other words, that must be why Jobs did the exact opposite of what
> >> Wozniak did with the Apple ][ whereupon he insisted on forcing people to
> >> upgrade a whole computer to get one or two additional functions.
> > 
> > he didn't say that, the ports weren't proprietary, and nobody had to
> > upgrade a whole computer to get additional functions.
> 
> The original Mac line was very much proprietary. 

it was not. 

> Read the line about the 
> Macintosh 128k at Wikipedia: 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_128K#Peripherals>
> 
> Absolutely none of what the Macintosh included as ports was standard and 
> that's one of the many reasons you couldn't just buy any printer and had 
> to rely on whatever Apply would ship.

nonsense. the original mac used two industry standard rs422 serial
ports, a superset of rs232. wikipedia is wrong when it calls rs422
nonstandard.

as for printers, that required little more than writing a printer
driver, or putting postscript in the printer. 

there were non-apple printers, although not that many early on since
writing a printer driver was fairly involved and printer companies were
still deciding whether supporting the mac was worth it from a business
perspective. apple did not prevent anything.

> > in fact, the pinouts of the ports were documented in inside macintosh,
> > a book available in any bookstore, along with full documentation of mac
> > os. *anyone* could buy it, not just developers. the information was not
> > secret.
> > 
> > mac os was *very* customizable. anyone who claims otherwise doesn't
> > know what they're talking about, regurgitating the old myths.
> 
> You have a very bizarre idea of what proprietary means. It's not closed, 
> it's proprietary meaning that it belongs to Apple and is not shared by 
> other companies. Proprietary comes from the French word "propriété" 
> meaning that it has an owner which, in this case, is Apple. In the same 
> way that the Macintosh had proprietary connectors, so did the PCjr and 
> the PS/2 in the MCA internal expansion port.

apple did design quite a bit and the ip did belong to them, however,
the details were available for anyone to write apps or design hardware.

many companies did exactly that. 

as i said, inside mac was sold in normal bookstores alongside other
computer books. *anyone* could buy a copy and start writing apps,
without apple even knowing about it, let alone approve it.

> >>>> As was
> >>>> Commodore's OS, but that's another story.
> >>>
> >>> actually, not as much, but the key problem was it had very little
> >>> software available compared to mac, dos and windows. software
> >>> developers were not interested.
> >>
> >> In comparison, sure. THAT is a correct statement especially the further
> >> users got into the lifespan of a Commodore Amiga machine. However, fewer
> >> titles does not translate into a machine being completely ignored by the
> >> public or developers either.
> > 
> > it was mostly ignored. not zero, but close enough.
> 
> That's a much fairer assessment.

and quite accurate.

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#119253

FromSilverSlimer <silver@slim.er>
Date2018-11-08 08:58 -0500
Message-ID<ziXED.643698$cL2.14429@fx43.iad>
In reply to#119246
On 2018-11-07 11:33 p.m., nospam wrote:
> In article <WWJED.530367$Ac3.259745@fx45.iad>, SilverSlimer
> <silver@slim.er> wrote:
> 
>>>>>> Windows was DOS with a pre-built menu system plus a few simple to use
>>>>>> settings (such as customising the menus for different users). It was
>>>>>> essentially useless until 3.x.
>>>>>
>>>>> win 3.x was only slightly better than earlier versions. as i said,
>>>>> windows '95 was when it was actually usable.
>>>>
>>>> Not true, essentially since many companies at the time used Windows 3.11
>>>> for their businesses and some still use it to this day.
>>>
>>> win 3.x was only slightly better than dos. it wasn't until win '95 when
>>> windows took off because only then was it functionally better than what
>>> existed before.
>>>
>>> put another way, win '95 caught up to where mac os was a decade earlier.
>>>
>>> microsoft word and excel were on a mac long before they were on windows.
>>
>> True about the first part, but Windows 95 was actually a much better
>> operating system than the Mac OS of the time
> 
> no, it definitely wasn't.
> 
>> so they didn't catch up as
>> much as they improved upon Apple's archaic design.
> 
> mac os wasn't archaic in the least and was well ahead of what existed
> at the time.
> 
> win95 & win98 still had dos under the hood.

It had DOS as much as it needed to since people, by using Windows 95, 
were migrating from a massive platform onto a new one and still needed 
some sort of assurance that their software would continue to operate. 
Much of it could within Windows 9x, but some couldn't and being able to 
load DOS to run it became necessary. However, 9x in general was more 
capable than MacOS at the time and even Apple knew it. That's why they 
started to develop Copland in response to it and eventually felt the 
obligation to attempt to purchase BeOS. It didn't happen and they moved 
onto NeXT.

>>>>>> There's more. FWIW, I preferred DOS over Windows, and OS/2 over both.
>>>>>> I liked Mac OS, but didn't like Apple's unwillingness to permit device
>>>>>> customisation beyond what they decided was acceptable. A DOS machine,
>>>>>> and hence Windows, was almost infinitely customisable.
>>>>>
>>>>> complete nonsense.
>>>>>
>>>>> apple did not stop *anyone* from customizing anything, and in fact, mac
>>>>> os was designed to be tweaked and modified in all sorts of ways, with
>>>>> full documentation as to how to do it.
>>>>>
>>>>> because of that, a whole category of mac software and hardware existed,
>>>>> doing things not possible on dos or windows.
>>>>
>>>> That must be why Steve Jobs specifically stated that he wanted the Mac
>>>> to have proprietary ports, no internal expansion slots and an operating
>>>> system which looked the same no matter whose machine you were using. In
>>>> other words, that must be why Jobs did the exact opposite of what
>>>> Wozniak did with the Apple ][ whereupon he insisted on forcing people to
>>>> upgrade a whole computer to get one or two additional functions.
>>>
>>> he didn't say that, the ports weren't proprietary, and nobody had to
>>> upgrade a whole computer to get additional functions.
>>
>> The original Mac line was very much proprietary.
> 
> it was not.

You clearly see the Mac's history with rose-coloured glasses and have a 
skewed definition of proprietary.

>> Read the line about the
>> Macintosh 128k at Wikipedia:
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_128K#Peripherals>
>>
>> Absolutely none of what the Macintosh included as ports was standard and
>> that's one of the many reasons you couldn't just buy any printer and had
>> to rely on whatever Apply would ship.
> 
> nonsense. the original mac used two industry standard rs422 serial
> ports, a superset of rs232. wikipedia is wrong when it calls rs422
> nonstandard.
> 
> as for printers, that required little more than writing a printer
> driver, or putting postscript in the printer.
> 
> there were non-apple printers, although not that many early on since
> writing a printer driver was fairly involved and printer companies were
> still deciding whether supporting the mac was worth it from a business
> perspective. apple did not prevent anything.

Yet, had Apple used the same ports as what the PC and other platforms 
were using, chances are that the number of available printers would have 
been multiplied. They purposely chose a different standard and limited a 
customer's options.

>>> in fact, the pinouts of the ports were documented in inside macintosh,
>>> a book available in any bookstore, along with full documentation of mac
>>> os. *anyone* could buy it, not just developers. the information was not
>>> secret.
>>>
>>> mac os was *very* customizable. anyone who claims otherwise doesn't
>>> know what they're talking about, regurgitating the old myths.
>>
>> You have a very bizarre idea of what proprietary means. It's not closed,
>> it's proprietary meaning that it belongs to Apple and is not shared by
>> other companies. Proprietary comes from the French word "propriété"
>> meaning that it has an owner which, in this case, is Apple. In the same
>> way that the Macintosh had proprietary connectors, so did the PCjr and
>> the PS/2 in the MCA internal expansion port.
> 
> apple did design quite a bit and the ip did belong to them, however,
> the details were available for anyone to write apps or design hardware.
> 
> many companies did exactly that.
> 
> as i said, inside mac was sold in normal bookstores alongside other
> computer books. *anyone* could buy a copy and start writing apps,
> without apple even knowing about it, let alone approve it.

We're still at an impasse in regards to your definition of proprietary. 
Proprietary does not prevent anyone from developing for a platform. 
Windows is proprietary yet people develop for it all the time. However, 
on the PC side, only the operating system is proprietary if you use 
Windows and the hardware is very much standardized across the board, 
unlike the original Mac and much of Apple's hardware going into the late 
90s.

< snip >

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Minds: @silverslimer

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#119270

Fromnospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Date2018-11-08 10:49 -0400
Message-ID<081120181049101184%nospam@nospam.invalid>
In reply to#119253
In article <ziXED.643698$cL2.14429@fx43.iad>, SilverSlimer
<silver@slim.er> wrote:

> 
> It had DOS as much as it needed to since people, by using Windows 95, 
> were migrating from a massive platform onto a new one and still needed 
> some sort of assurance that their software would continue to operate. 
> Much of it could within Windows 9x, but some couldn't and being able to 
> load DOS to run it became necessary. 

win 95 was a shell on top of dos, which greatly limited what it could
do.

> However, 9x in general was more 
> capable than MacOS at the time and even Apple knew it. 

nonsense.

> That's why they 
> started to develop Copland in response to it and eventually felt the 
> obligation to attempt to purchase BeOS. It didn't happen and they moved 
> onto NeXT.

no, that's not why they started to develop copland.

copland actually began in the late 1980s, long before there was a
windows 95 or even win 3.x, but by 1995, it was a mismanaged mess, in a
mismanaged company.


> >> The original Mac line was very much proprietary.
> > 
> > it was not.
> 
> You clearly see the Mac's history with rose-coloured glasses and have a 
> skewed definition of proprietary.

more accurately, you have a clear *lack* of knowledge about many things
apple, believing many of the myths.



> >> Read the line about the
> >> Macintosh 128k at Wikipedia:
> >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_128K#Peripherals>
> >>
> >> Absolutely none of what the Macintosh included as ports was standard and
> >> that's one of the many reasons you couldn't just buy any printer and had
> >> to rely on whatever Apply would ship.
> > 
> > nonsense. the original mac used two industry standard rs422 serial
> > ports, a superset of rs232. wikipedia is wrong when it calls rs422
> > nonstandard.
> > 
> > as for printers, that required little more than writing a printer
> > driver, or putting postscript in the printer.
> > 
> > there were non-apple printers, although not that many early on since
> > writing a printer driver was fairly involved and printer companies were
> > still deciding whether supporting the mac was worth it from a business
> > perspective. apple did not prevent anything.
> 
> Yet, had Apple used the same ports as what the PC and other platforms 
> were using, chances are that the number of available printers would have 
> been multiplied. They purposely chose a different standard and limited a 
> customer's options.

completely wrong. apple did not limit anything.

the imagewriter was actually a c.itoh printer which used a standard
rs232 connection, and in fact, worked with dos computers. 

the issue was writing drivers for graphic output instead of using it as
a generic dot matrix printer that spits out whatever ascii text it
receives in a single font.

in mac os, a printer was just another window, just one that was
rendered on paper rather than screen, which was how all apps could be
wysiwyg without any additional effort by the developer.

writing mac printer drivers was a fair amount of work, and a lot of
printer makers chose not to do it, at least until the mac gained some
traction and became worth their effort.

apple not only didn't limit what printers could be used, but they had
documentation on how to write printer drivers and also offered tech
support to anyone who wanted to do it. 

not only that, but there was at least one mac software company that
wrote printer drivers for printer manufacturers. 

macs also supported postscript, another industry standard, however,
that was better suited for laser printers and high end typesetting
equipment than cheap dot matrix printers.




> 
> We're still at an impasse in regards to your definition of proprietary. 
> Proprietary does not prevent anyone from developing for a platform. 
> Windows is proprietary yet people develop for it all the time. However, 
> on the PC side, only the operating system is proprietary if you use 
> Windows and the hardware is very much standardized across the board, 
> unlike the original Mac and much of Apple's hardware going into the late 
> 90s.

apple uses industry standards wherever possible.

the problem is that many of those are not that good, so apple either
chose something more capable or they designed something better. 

the original mac had rs422 serial ports, which were a superset of
rs232. existing rs232 devices worked perfectly fine without *any*
issue, however, they could never be as fast as rs422 devices. 

the mac ii's slots were nubus, which was designed by texas instruments.
later, apple switched to pci slots, also not their design.

as mentioned above, macs supported postscript, another industry
standard.

the list goes on...

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#119322

FromSilverSlimer <silver@slim.er>
Date2018-11-08 21:03 -0500
Message-ID<HV5FD.234743$X82.231542@fx22.iad>
In reply to#119270
On 2018-11-08 9:49 a.m., nospam wrote:
> In article <ziXED.643698$cL2.14429@fx43.iad>, SilverSlimer
> <silver@slim.er> wrote:
> 
>>
>> It had DOS as much as it needed to since people, by using Windows 95,
>> were migrating from a massive platform onto a new one and still needed
>> some sort of assurance that their software would continue to operate.
>> Much of it could within Windows 9x, but some couldn't and being able to
>> load DOS to run it became necessary.
> 
> win 95 was a shell on top of dos, which greatly limited what it could
> do.

That's how most people saw it as well and I have to admit that I had no 
reason to think otherwise but Peter Köhlmann in comp.os.linux.advocacy 
made a decent case for why it _wasn't_ just a shell.

>> However, 9x in general was more
>> capable than MacOS at the time and even Apple knew it.
> 
> nonsense.

Nope.

>> That's why they
>> started to develop Copland in response to it and eventually felt the
>> obligation to attempt to purchase BeOS. It didn't happen and they moved
>> onto NeXT.
> 
> no, that's not why they started to develop copland.
> 
> copland actually began in the late 1980s, long before there was a
> windows 95 or even win 3.x, but by 1995, it was a mismanaged mess, in a
> mismanaged company.

Regardless of when the development started, there was no doubt that 
Copland was going to end up being a response to Windows 9x since 9x 
remedied many of the drawbacks of MacOS.

>>>> The original Mac line was very much proprietary.
>>>
>>> it was not.
>>
>> You clearly see the Mac's history with rose-coloured glasses and have a
>> skewed definition of proprietary.
> 
> more accurately, you have a clear *lack* of knowledge about many things
> apple, believing many of the myths.

I have no reason to doubt the historians especially since they are not 
zealots in any way.

>>>> Read the line about the
>>>> Macintosh 128k at Wikipedia:
>>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_128K#Peripherals>
>>>>
>>>> Absolutely none of what the Macintosh included as ports was standard and
>>>> that's one of the many reasons you couldn't just buy any printer and had
>>>> to rely on whatever Apply would ship.
>>>
>>> nonsense. the original mac used two industry standard rs422 serial
>>> ports, a superset of rs232. wikipedia is wrong when it calls rs422
>>> nonstandard.
>>>
>>> as for printers, that required little more than writing a printer
>>> driver, or putting postscript in the printer.
>>>
>>> there were non-apple printers, although not that many early on since
>>> writing a printer driver was fairly involved and printer companies were
>>> still deciding whether supporting the mac was worth it from a business
>>> perspective. apple did not prevent anything.
>>
>> Yet, had Apple used the same ports as what the PC and other platforms
>> were using, chances are that the number of available printers would have
>> been multiplied. They purposely chose a different standard and limited a
>> customer's options.
> 
> completely wrong. apple did not limit anything.
> 
> the imagewriter was actually a c.itoh printer which used a standard
> rs232 connection, and in fact, worked with dos computers.
> 
> the issue was writing drivers for graphic output instead of using it as
> a generic dot matrix printer that spits out whatever ascii text it
> receives in a single font.
> 
> in mac os, a printer was just another window, just one that was
> rendered on paper rather than screen, which was how all apps could be
> wysiwyg without any additional effort by the developer.
> 
> writing mac printer drivers was a fair amount of work, and a lot of
> printer makers chose not to do it, at least until the mac gained some
> traction and became worth their effort.
> 
> apple not only didn't limit what printers could be used, but they had
> documentation on how to write printer drivers and also offered tech
> support to anyone who wanted to do it.
> 
> not only that, but there was at least one mac software company that
> wrote printer drivers for printer manufacturers.
> 
> macs also supported postscript, another industry standard, however,
> that was better suited for laser printers and high end typesetting
> equipment than cheap dot matrix printers.

Quite possible, I won't challenge that.

>> We're still at an impasse in regards to your definition of proprietary.
>> Proprietary does not prevent anyone from developing for a platform.
>> Windows is proprietary yet people develop for it all the time. However,
>> on the PC side, only the operating system is proprietary if you use
>> Windows and the hardware is very much standardized across the board,
>> unlike the original Mac and much of Apple's hardware going into the late
>> 90s.
> 
> apple uses industry standards wherever possible.
> 
> the problem is that many of those are not that good, so apple either
> chose something more capable or they designed something better.
> 
> the original mac had rs422 serial ports, which were a superset of
> rs232. existing rs232 devices worked perfectly fine without *any*
> issue, however, they could never be as fast as rs422 devices.
> 
> the mac ii's slots were nubus, which was designed by texas instruments.
> later, apple switched to pci slots, also not their design.
> 
> as mentioned above, macs supported postscript, another industry
> standard.
> 
> the list goes on...

You make a good case and I'd be a fool to challenge you. I surrender to 
your wealth of knowledge, good sir.

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Minds: @silverslimer

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#119335

Fromnospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Date2018-11-08 21:52 -0500
Message-ID<081120182152392780%nospam@nospam.invalid>
In reply to#119322
In article <HV5FD.234743$X82.231542@fx22.iad>, SilverSlimer
<silver@slim.er> wrote:

> >> It had DOS as much as it needed to since people, by using Windows 95,
> >> were migrating from a massive platform onto a new one and still needed
> >> some sort of assurance that their software would continue to operate.
> >> Much of it could within Windows 9x, but some couldn't and being able to
> >> load DOS to run it became necessary.
> > 
> > win 95 was a shell on top of dos, which greatly limited what it could
> > do.
> 
> That's how most people saw it as well and I have to admit that I had no 
> reason to think otherwise

because that's what it is.

> but Peter Köhlmann in comp.os.linux.advocacy 
> made a decent case for why it _wasn't_ just a shell.

much of what he says is wrong, especially about macs.

> >> However, 9x in general was more
> >> capable than MacOS at the time and even Apple knew it.
> > 
> > nonsense.
> 
> Nope.

not nope. 

win95 was catching up to where mac os was a decade earlier, but still
wasn't quite there. 

apple's problem was that they mostly sat on their butt all that time,
with a lot of internal infighting and canceled projects, plus microsoft
abused their monopoly position.

> >> That's why they
> >> started to develop Copland in response to it and eventually felt the
> >> obligation to attempt to purchase BeOS. It didn't happen and they moved
> >> onto NeXT.
> > 
> > no, that's not why they started to develop copland.
> > 
> > copland actually began in the late 1980s, long before there was a
> > windows 95 or even win 3.x, but by 1995, it was a mismanaged mess, in a
> > mismanaged company.
> 
> Regardless of when the development started, there was no doubt that 
> Copland was going to end up being a response to Windows 9x since 9x 
> remedied many of the drawbacks of MacOS.

nope. copland began well before win95 and was very definitely *not* a
response to win95.



> >>>
> >>> there were non-apple printers, although not that many early on since
> >>> writing a printer driver was fairly involved and printer companies were
> >>> still deciding whether supporting the mac was worth it from a business
> >>> perspective. apple did not prevent anything.
> >>
> >> Yet, had Apple used the same ports as what the PC and other platforms
> >> were using, chances are that the number of available printers would have
> >> been multiplied. They purposely chose a different standard and limited a
> >> customer's options.
> > 
> > completely wrong. apple did not limit anything.
> > 
> > the imagewriter was actually a c.itoh printer which used a standard
> > rs232 connection, and in fact, worked with dos computers.
> > 
> > the issue was writing drivers for graphic output instead of using it as
> > a generic dot matrix printer that spits out whatever ascii text it
> > receives in a single font.
> > 
> > in mac os, a printer was just another window, just one that was
> > rendered on paper rather than screen, which was how all apps could be
> > wysiwyg without any additional effort by the developer.
> > 
> > writing mac printer drivers was a fair amount of work, and a lot of
> > printer makers chose not to do it, at least until the mac gained some
> > traction and became worth their effort.
> > 
> > apple not only didn't limit what printers could be used, but they had
> > documentation on how to write printer drivers and also offered tech
> > support to anyone who wanted to do it.
> > 
> > not only that, but there was at least one mac software company that
> > wrote printer drivers for printer manufacturers.
> > 
> > macs also supported postscript, another industry standard, however,
> > that was better suited for laser printers and high end typesetting
> > equipment than cheap dot matrix printers.
> 
> Quite possible, I won't challenge that.

not only possible, but that's exactly what happened.

> >> We're still at an impasse in regards to your definition of proprietary.
> >> Proprietary does not prevent anyone from developing for a platform.
> >> Windows is proprietary yet people develop for it all the time. However,
> >> on the PC side, only the operating system is proprietary if you use
> >> Windows and the hardware is very much standardized across the board,
> >> unlike the original Mac and much of Apple's hardware going into the late
> >> 90s.
> > 
> > apple uses industry standards wherever possible.
> > 
> > the problem is that many of those are not that good, so apple either
> > chose something more capable or they designed something better.
> > 
> > the original mac had rs422 serial ports, which were a superset of
> > rs232. existing rs232 devices worked perfectly fine without *any*
> > issue, however, they could never be as fast as rs422 devices.
> > 
> > the mac ii's slots were nubus, which was designed by texas instruments.
> > later, apple switched to pci slots, also not their design.
> > 
> > as mentioned above, macs supported postscript, another industry
> > standard.
> > 
> > the list goes on...
> 
> You make a good case and I'd be a fool to challenge you. I surrender to 
> your wealth of knowledge, good sir.

thanks. sometimes i'm surprised at how much i remember from back then. 

btw, i dug up inside mac, and not only did it give the pinouts for the
various ports, but it even gave partial schematics, in addition to how
to write drivers. 

<https://i.imgur.com/P369DRz.jpg>
<https://i.imgur.com/kAACU57.jpg>

anyone who wanted to design hardware or software for the mac could
easily do so, something which many companies did.

those who claim apple blocked anything were simply looking for an
excuse to blame someone else.

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#119341

FromSilverSlimer <silver@slim.er>
Date2018-11-08 22:13 -0500
Message-ID<tX6FD.289279$XG2.181257@fx16.iad>
In reply to#119335
On 2018-11-08 9:52 p.m., nospam wrote:
> In article <HV5FD.234743$X82.231542@fx22.iad>, SilverSlimer
> <silver@slim.er> wrote:
> 
>>>> It had DOS as much as it needed to since people, by using Windows 95,
>>>> were migrating from a massive platform onto a new one and still needed
>>>> some sort of assurance that their software would continue to operate.
>>>> Much of it could within Windows 9x, but some couldn't and being able to
>>>> load DOS to run it became necessary.
>>>
>>> win 95 was a shell on top of dos, which greatly limited what it could
>>> do.
>>
>> That's how most people saw it as well and I have to admit that I had no
>> reason to think otherwise
> 
> because that's what it is.
> 
>> but Peter Köhlmann in comp.os.linux.advocacy
>> made a decent case for why it _wasn't_ just a shell.
> 
> much of what he says is wrong, especially about macs.

Well, he _has_ been proven wrong on several occasions but he tends to 
get things right along the way.

>>>> However, 9x in general was more
>>>> capable than MacOS at the time and even Apple knew it.
>>>
>>> nonsense.
>>
>> Nope.
> 
> not nope.
> 
> win95 was catching up to where mac os was a decade earlier, but still
> wasn't quite there.
> 
> apple's problem was that they mostly sat on their butt all that time,
> with a lot of internal infighting and canceled projects, plus microsoft
> abused their monopoly position.

To me, it's fairly debatable as to whether Microsoft already had a 
monopoly position by the time Windows 95 was released. If there was a 
moment in time at which other companies could still oust Microsoft, it 
was 1994/1995 but admittedly, once 95 was released, it was pretty clear 
that a monopoly was forming. Nobody could deny that it was an 
unprecedented success.

As for Mac sitting on its ass, I agree since that's more or less what I 
experienced. The PC was moving forward fairly quickly but it seemed that 
Apple, most of the time, just came up with pointless ideas which didn't 
benefit the company or users in any way. They seemed to be banking on 
the fact that their product wasn't the PC and was therefore interesting 
as an alternative.

>>>> That's why they
>>>> started to develop Copland in response to it and eventually felt the
>>>> obligation to attempt to purchase BeOS. It didn't happen and they moved
>>>> onto NeXT.
>>>
>>> no, that's not why they started to develop copland.
>>>
>>> copland actually began in the late 1980s, long before there was a
>>> windows 95 or even win 3.x, but by 1995, it was a mismanaged mess, in a
>>> mismanaged company.
>>
>> Regardless of when the development started, there was no doubt that
>> Copland was going to end up being a response to Windows 9x since 9x
>> remedied many of the drawbacks of MacOS.
> 
> nope. copland began well before win95 and was very definitely *not* a
> response to win95.

What I'm saying is that had it released, it would have been _perceived_ 
as a response to Windows 95.

>>>>> there were non-apple printers, although not that many early on since
>>>>> writing a printer driver was fairly involved and printer companies were
>>>>> still deciding whether supporting the mac was worth it from a business
>>>>> perspective. apple did not prevent anything.
>>>>
>>>> Yet, had Apple used the same ports as what the PC and other platforms
>>>> were using, chances are that the number of available printers would have
>>>> been multiplied. They purposely chose a different standard and limited a
>>>> customer's options.
>>>
>>> completely wrong. apple did not limit anything.
>>>
>>> the imagewriter was actually a c.itoh printer which used a standard
>>> rs232 connection, and in fact, worked with dos computers.
>>>
>>> the issue was writing drivers for graphic output instead of using it as
>>> a generic dot matrix printer that spits out whatever ascii text it
>>> receives in a single font.
>>>
>>> in mac os, a printer was just another window, just one that was
>>> rendered on paper rather than screen, which was how all apps could be
>>> wysiwyg without any additional effort by the developer.
>>>
>>> writing mac printer drivers was a fair amount of work, and a lot of
>>> printer makers chose not to do it, at least until the mac gained some
>>> traction and became worth their effort.
>>>
>>> apple not only didn't limit what printers could be used, but they had
>>> documentation on how to write printer drivers and also offered tech
>>> support to anyone who wanted to do it.
>>>
>>> not only that, but there was at least one mac software company that
>>> wrote printer drivers for printer manufacturers.
>>>
>>> macs also supported postscript, another industry standard, however,
>>> that was better suited for laser printers and high end typesetting
>>> equipment than cheap dot matrix printers.
>>
>> Quite possible, I won't challenge that.
> 
> not only possible, but that's exactly what happened.
> 
>>>> We're still at an impasse in regards to your definition of proprietary.
>>>> Proprietary does not prevent anyone from developing for a platform.
>>>> Windows is proprietary yet people develop for it all the time. However,
>>>> on the PC side, only the operating system is proprietary if you use
>>>> Windows and the hardware is very much standardized across the board,
>>>> unlike the original Mac and much of Apple's hardware going into the late
>>>> 90s.
>>>
>>> apple uses industry standards wherever possible.
>>>
>>> the problem is that many of those are not that good, so apple either
>>> chose something more capable or they designed something better.
>>>
>>> the original mac had rs422 serial ports, which were a superset of
>>> rs232. existing rs232 devices worked perfectly fine without *any*
>>> issue, however, they could never be as fast as rs422 devices.
>>>
>>> the mac ii's slots were nubus, which was designed by texas instruments.
>>> later, apple switched to pci slots, also not their design.
>>>
>>> as mentioned above, macs supported postscript, another industry
>>> standard.
>>>
>>> the list goes on...
>>
>> You make a good case and I'd be a fool to challenge you. I surrender to
>> your wealth of knowledge, good sir.
> 
> thanks. sometimes i'm surprised at how much i remember from back then.
> 
> btw, i dug up inside mac, and not only did it give the pinouts for the
> various ports, but it even gave partial schematics, in addition to how
> to write drivers.
> 
> <https://i.imgur.com/P369DRz.jpg>
> <https://i.imgur.com/kAACU57.jpg>
> 
> anyone who wanted to design hardware or software for the mac could
> easily do so, something which many companies did.
> 
> those who claim apple blocked anything were simply looking for an
> excuse to blame someone else.

It's hard to imagine that the people reminiscing about the old days in 
technology have a bone to pick with Apple but it is possible that they 
are very biased in reporting what the company was doing.

-- 
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Minds: @silverslimer

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#119347

FromSnit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
Date2018-11-08 20:22 -0700
Message-ID<g4kcs3Fu0e6U1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#119341
On 11/8/18 8:13 PM, SilverSlimer wrote:
> On 2018-11-08 9:52 p.m., nospam wrote:
>> In article <HV5FD.234743$X82.231542@fx22.iad>, SilverSlimer
>> <silver@slim.er> wrote:
>>
>>>>> It had DOS as much as it needed to since people, by using Windows 95,
>>>>> were migrating from a massive platform onto a new one and still needed
>>>>> some sort of assurance that their software would continue to operate.
>>>>> Much of it could within Windows 9x, but some couldn't and being 
>>>>> able to
>>>>> load DOS to run it became necessary.
>>>>
>>>> win 95 was a shell on top of dos, which greatly limited what it could
>>>> do.
>>>
>>> That's how most people saw it as well and I have to admit that I had no
>>> reason to think otherwise
>>
>> because that's what it is.
>>
>>> but Peter Köhlmann in comp.os.linux.advocacy
>>> made a decent case for why it _wasn't_ just a shell.
>>
>> much of what he says is wrong, especially about macs.
> 
> Well, he _has_ been proven wrong on several occasions but he tends to 
> get things right along the way.

He is wrong more often than he is right.

>>>>> However, 9x in general was more
>>>>> capable than MacOS at the time and even Apple knew it.
>>>>
>>>> nonsense.
>>>
>>> Nope.
>>
>> not nope.
>>
>> win95 was catching up to where mac os was a decade earlier, but still
>> wasn't quite there.
>>
>> apple's problem was that they mostly sat on their butt all that time,
>> with a lot of internal infighting and canceled projects, plus microsoft
>> abused their monopoly position.
> 
> To me, it's fairly debatable as to whether Microsoft already had a 
> monopoly position by the time Windows 95 was released. If there was a 
> moment in time at which other companies could still oust Microsoft, it 
> was 1994/1995 but admittedly, once 95 was released, it was pretty clear 
> that a monopoly was forming. Nobody could deny that it was an 
> unprecedented success.

Even before that they had the lion's share of the market.

> As for Mac sitting on its ass, I agree since that's more or less what I 
> experienced. The PC was moving forward fairly quickly but it seemed that 
> Apple, most of the time, just came up with pointless ideas which didn't 
> benefit the company or users in any way. They seemed to be banking on 
> the fact that their product wasn't the PC and was therefore interesting 
> as an alternative.

They were struggling to modernize, and had a number of years where they 
were not innovating as much as I would have liked. Jobs coming back was 
a HUGE benefit to them. And their customers... and really the industry 
as a whole.

>>>>> That's why they
>>>>> started to develop Copland in response to it and eventually felt the
>>>>> obligation to attempt to purchase BeOS. It didn't happen and they 
>>>>> moved
>>>>> onto NeXT.
>>>>
>>>> no, that's not why they started to develop copland.
>>>>
>>>> copland actually began in the late 1980s, long before there was a
>>>> windows 95 or even win 3.x, but by 1995, it was a mismanaged mess, in a
>>>> mismanaged company.
>>>
>>> Regardless of when the development started, there was no doubt that
>>> Copland was going to end up being a response to Windows 9x since 9x
>>> remedied many of the drawbacks of MacOS.
>>
>> nope. copland began well before win95 and was very definitely *not* a
>> response to win95.
> 
> What I'm saying is that had it released, it would have been _perceived_ 
> as a response to Windows 95.

Maybe... but that is quite different than BEING one. :)

...
>> btw, i dug up inside mac, and not only did it give the pinouts for the
>> various ports, but it even gave partial schematics, in addition to how
>> to write drivers.
>>
>> <https://i.imgur.com/P369DRz.jpg>
>> <https://i.imgur.com/kAACU57.jpg>
>>
>> anyone who wanted to design hardware or software for the mac could
>> easily do so, something which many companies did.
>>
>> those who claim apple blocked anything were simply looking for an
>> excuse to blame someone else.
> 
> It's hard to imagine that the people reminiscing about the old days in 
> technology have a bone to pick with Apple but it is possible that they 
> are very biased in reporting what the company was doing.
> 
Do you not see bias now? It was the same then. :)

-- 
Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They 
cannot use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel 
somehow superior by attacking the messenger.

They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.

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