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They are an attempt to paint a picture that you want painted. That in fact may or may not be based in reality or fact. Having worked for M$ for 9 months and approaching the end of my contract, I can tell you that they are not the ones to fear. The ones to fear are those that keep howling to have the Government step in and write rules and regulations to stop the SEEMINGLY big bad monster. That is all this nation needs, more rules and regulations. Write better software, make sure you have a user interface that is better than windows, and people is convert. (Simply my humble opinion.) What I would really like to see is some group really decide to build a better mouse trap. All responses >>> deleted... No need to flame me. I am a faithful SuSE user and have been since 5.X... -- Kirk Moore Lab Manager - IES team Lab's 27/2525 and 27/1427 425-703-2255x14054 "Black Holes are created when God divides by zero!!!" -----Original Message----- From: Curtis Rey [mailto:crrey@home.com] Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 2:23 PM To: S. Bulterman; stclair@niue.nu; SuSE Discussion List Subject: Re: [SLE] Who Owns Your Data? Drop the Passport like you would a trangient with tuberculosis. If you have anything on a system that's under the passport - move it. I keep posting links about the shifty/scarry things M$ is doing. This S#$t should scare you. Now maybe you'll understand why guys like me and Fred keep posting these seemingly pointless articles. They're an attempt to give the users a broad picture of what's "really" on the horizon. M$ really has corporate "illusions" of grandeur! When you start to look at all the pieces and put them into context it would scare and bother any reasonable person. Dump the passport ASAP. Cheers. Curtis On Monday 04 June 2001 03:32 pm, S. Bulterman wrote:
This scared the living daylights out of me. Now gone check Term Of Use of the Windows Passport site.....
Internet Niue wrote:
Hmmm. This is interesting reading for those of you who haven't seen it yet.
-- Thanks in advance, Stefan -------------------------------------------------------------- Linux a world without borders, fences, windows and gates..... Titanic98 "Which computer do you want to sink today????"
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* Kirk Moore (Volt) (a-kmoore@microsoft.com) [010604 15:25]: ->They are an attempt to paint a picture that you want painted. That in ->fact may or may not be based in reality or fact. Having worked for M$ ->for 9 months and approaching the end of my contract, I can tell you that ->they are not the ones to fear. The ones to fear are those that keep ->howling to have the Government step in and write rules and regulations ->to stop the SEEMINGLY big bad monster. That is all this nation needs, ->more rules and regulations. Write better software, make sure you have a ->user interface that is better than windows, and people is convert. ->(Simply my humble opinion.) -> ->What I would really like to see is some group really decide to build a ->better mouse trap. -> ->All responses >>> deleted... No need to flame me. -> ->I am a faithful SuSE user and have been since 5.X... Let me preface my statement with I know your a SuSE user Kirk and I'm not making this towards you. If you build a better mouse trap and the salesman is at the front door trying to sell it, but his wife has a gun to her head in the back room held by a man threatening to blow her head off if you buy anything from the salesman...I don't care if the mouse trap is revolutionary. The shop keep will smile nicely, take your card and show you the door. You will never hear from that shopkeep again. Strong arm tactics (leveraging your monopoly product) will always win over a better product everytime. I can say one thing which illustrates this...OS/2. *shrug* -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin
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