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  1. SCO Didn't Complain When NUMA was on NT by grendelkhan · · Score: 1 · on SCO Announces Final Termination of IBM's Licence

    Very interesting article referenced in discussions at Groklaw by quartermass, IBM announced after buying Sequent that they planned on adding NUMA to Linux, and it was already running with NT and (eventually) 64-bit NT.

    Why all the fuss now?

  2. Re:Submitter should RTFA by Vainglorious+Coward · · Score: 5, Informative · on Meet Martin Taylor Of Microsoft's Open Source Test Lab
    Taylor may not have used the word "cancer", but Steve Ballmer certainly did, in an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times, June 2001. Unfortunately, I can't find the otiginal article on the CS-T website, but a quick google for "Ballmer Linux cancer" yields more than 200 hits, of which this is a typical sample.

    Ballmer said, "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches."

    What was that you were saying about legitimate debate and argument?

  3. Re:Surprising it hasn't happened sooner by tunabomber · · Score: 1 · on How to Jam a Worldwide Satellite TV Broadcast

    Actually, the Falun Gong have done it a number of times.

  4. Product placement by SgtChaireBourne · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft to Clean Up Code
    MS was to computers what Big Tobacco was to sports. If you didn't get in the pyramid by now, it's too late, forget it. It's over - especially now that Greenspan has said his. Too much attention is being spent on the antics of a dead company.

    Slashdot's product placement and trolling stepped up while European legislators were discussing software patents. Picayune articles, many of which consisted of rehashed softer versions of old FUD and misinformation, covered topics which have already been dealt with, again and again.

    Since most novices do not understand the scope and severity of MS's problems and since any critique of MS, no matter the merit, gets written off as "MS-Bashing", it would be best to focus on the more successful areas of the IT sector. Here are a few examples:

    Check the forums for tools that work - *BSD, Linux, QNX, Netware, eDirectory, LDAP, Kerberos, KDE, Gnome, Apache, MySQL, Postgresql, and so on ...

  5. Re:One more for the road-Couple extras. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on What's Microsoft Up To?

    Speaker did not 'bow' to lobbyists

    "In his May 2 opinion piece, Ken Barber accused me of killing legislation regarding open-source software (House Bill 2892) "after powerful out-of-state corporate interests showed up at the Oregon Capitol, seeking to make the bill go away."

    How could DRM on Linux impact admins?

    Linux e-mail set-up slashes costs to £8 per user

    Mozilla backs down on browser name

    BTW with the iLoo coming out. If it fails will it be Microsoft's Water-iLoo?