The Microsoft Collection
An Educational Resource For All Computer Users
Introduction
Christian Loweth's "The Microsoft Collection" is a compilation of
quotes and links that effectively portrays the negative influence
of Microsoft on the computing world. It is not the first such
collection, but when it disappeared from the Internet in 2002, I
felt an important resource was lost. Thanks to
The Wayback Machine, some parts
could be resurrected with some effort. The contacts page was
missing from that archive. Searches using
Google did not uncover any new
location of the work. After some false trails I located C. Loweth
by email in January, 2005 and obtained permission:
Consider this email my official endorsement and authorization
for you to post the "The Microsoft Collection - An Educational
Resource For All Computer Users" in any way you see fit, as
long as it is non-profit.
The goals of the collection itself are outlined within it by
Loweth. The goals I have for this revitalization of it are as
follows:
- Preserve the originals:
from its time on geocities
from its time on homepage.mac
- Create a
changelog
in which to record the revision history
and credits. Release 1.0 seems to be the traditional version
number used to indicate something is ready for general public
release, so the originals will be taken as 1.0 and 1.1,
respectively.
- Bring all pages into compliance with at least HTML 4.01
Strict standards.
- Update all links, where possible, or note where the source
is no longer available.
- Place the entire resulting work under the Creative Commons
License at
Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0
to provide for non-commercial reproduction and derivatives.
- Extend the document with further quotes and links that have
become available since it was last updated, while maintaining
the ease of reading, organization, quality, and absence of added
editorial rants.
- Provide convenient archives of the
work for downloading.
The current work is HERE
