"We can read the Linspire-Microsoft patent agreement now, or more precisely Microsoft's 'Covenant to Customers', and I thought it would be worthwhile to give it a close, line-by-line reading. I'll explain it as best I can, but ask your lawyer if it matters to you in a real-world sense. For our purposes here, let's just have fun with the worst deal I've seen yet in this category."
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Member since:2005-07-06
No sarcasm? Really? I honestly hope you're just trying to be contrary.
Well, if you can't trust *Microsoft*, I ask you, who *can* you trust?
They have vays of making you talk, you know.
They have lawyers to darken your skies.
So long as you don't twitch, move, modify, upgrade, sublicense, or do unauthorized things. But if you assume that by buying Linspire, you are safe forever, forgeddaboud it.
What? You wanted to upgrade too?
That's only in the first page.
Ahh, so the flameware has begun. I'm done here now. Enjoy 
Edited 2007-07-23 16:39
Member since:2005-07-02
That is indeed sarcasm, though it's hardly anything to write home about.
That is not sarcasm. Sarcasm is saying something while you really mean the opposite. This doesn't apply here.
That is not sarcasm either.
Again, not sarcasm. At worst, the first sentence contains two exaggerations ("twitch" and "move"), but no sarcasm.
That's ridicule, but not sarcasm.
Member since:2005-10-02
Well, only the first line is what I would call sarcasm, and it's even very mild. It's more like harsh-funny iorny than outright sarcams. The rest isn't sarcasm by any definition. Rather irony than sarcasm. Besides the sentences are funny 
(but again, I'm a Dane - Sarcasm is the core of Danish Tongue ).
I think you are being a "bit" childish here, soooo grown up... suuure 
(just to give you a taste of typically kind statement in DK 
Member since:
2005-10-02
There is very little extra crap in it. Most of it is simply analysis even if the wording seems offensive to you. There is definitely no sarcasm in the article. I haven't read the comments yet, but they are probably rather sarcastic, but PJ is seldom sarcastic in a harsh way (but I'm a Dane, I'm bound to miss it
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