Re: Microslosh vision of the future
I just hope the anti-trust people are looking into this....i can't see a bigger case for them to spring into action... At 18:43 8/11/02 -0700, you wrote:
Microsoft already duped the software consumers into buying into fully proprietary software. Given the prevalent time horizon of average IT manager's thinking I fully expect Microsoft to get that stuff deployed before the poor saps start realizing they're being ripped. After that Microsoft will leverage their market power to exclude any competition. Exactly like they did it before on numerous occasions.
Their PR budget is bigger than GDP of some nations. They're ruthless and show remarkable lack of respect to the notions of fairness or common good. Be afraid.
--vadim
At 11:47 PM -0400 2002/08/11, blitz wrote:
I just hope the anti-trust people are looking into this....i can't see a bigger case for them to spring into action...
Bush just hired the former Microsoft head of security to be his "go-to" man for creating an infrastructure to protect the security of US computer assets. Do you really think that they will ever again lift a hand against Microsoft? They only participated in the anti-trust action brought by the Clinton white house because they had no choice -- their pulling out of the case would have been far worse than continuing to a settlement that resulted in less than a wrist-slap. And it didn't even take Billy-boy a billion to buy the US gov't. -- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E W+++(--) N+ !w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++) tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++)
<SNIP> Bush just hired the former Microsoft head of security to be his "go-to" man for creating an infrastructure to protect the security of US computer assets. <END SNIP> Now that scares me...knowing Microsoft's reputation in the Security Industry. I heard the new moto is over one billion vulnerabilities served. Gerardo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad Knowles" <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: "blitz" <blitz@macronet.net>; "Vadim Antonov" <avg@exigengroup.com> Cc: <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 3:44 PM Subject: Re: Microslosh vision of the future
At 11:47 PM -0400 2002/08/11, blitz wrote:
I just hope the anti-trust people are looking into this....i can't see a bigger case for them to spring into action...
Bush just hired the former Microsoft head of security to be his "go-to" man for creating an infrastructure to protect the security of US computer assets.
Do you really think that they will ever again lift a hand against Microsoft? They only participated in the anti-trust action brought by the Clinton white house because they had no choice -- their pulling out of the case would have been far worse than continuing to a settlement that resulted in less than a wrist-slap.
And it didn't even take Billy-boy a billion to buy the US gov't.
-- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E W+++(--) N+
!w---
O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++) tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++)
on 8/12/2002 3:44 PM Brad Knowles wrote:
Do you really think that they will ever again lift a hand against Microsoft? They only participated in the anti-trust action brought by the Clinton white house because they had no choice
Yeah! The FTC actions res passport are just to throw us off the truth! http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/08/08/020808hnftcboost2.xml http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,449416,00.asp investigation started in this term, action concluded in this term please... somewhere else, thanks -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
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