[ale] your new administrator, bill gates

[Dow Hurst]

I am beginning to see how the big guys may have smart ideas once in a 
while that could really help them such as Palladium, however, in their 
hurry they make poor decisions based on trying to get control of the 
market.  So they just don't get nearly as far as they could.  If 
Microsoft tried to have a servant attitude toward the market things 
would be quite different, except the quality would definitely have to 
come up!!
Dow


Josh Freeman wrote:

>Every time I am convinced that something has come along to really hurt
>the Linux crowd (Palladium), M$ does something so mind-bogglingly stupid
>as this to make it that much easier for me to make a case from taking my
>office from a Windows shop to a Mac shop or, preferrably, an all-Unix
>shop.
>
>While Palladium is still could be a Bad Thing(tm) for the Open Source
>Community, this sort of silliness hurts Microsoft. A lot.
>
>Josh
>
>
>On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 12:30, Keith Hopkins wrote:
>  
>
>>Geoffrey wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25956.html
>>>      
>>>
>>[snip]
>>    
>>
>>>"You agree that in order to protect the integrity of content and 
>>>software protected by digital rights management ('Secure Content'), 
>>>Microsoft may provide security related updates to the OS Components that 
>>>will be automatically downloaded onto your computer. These security 
>>>related updates may disable your ability to copy and/or play Secure 
>>>Content and use other software on your computer. If we provide such a 
>>>security update, we will use reasonable efforts to post notices on a web 
>>>site explaining the update."
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Where is Nancy R. when you need her... "JUST SAY NO!"
>>
>>-- 
>>Lost in Tokyo,
>>   Keith
>>
>>
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