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Oh, back then someone showed me BASCOM80 for CP/M. It was so bad, I decided that the cost of an 8" floppy would outweigh the value of this product. Of course, these days media are much cheaper, which might be the reason why the makers of BASCOM80 are still so popular.

Wasn't "Trustworthy computing" a Microsoft ad campaign years ago? Seems it turned into a Google campaign. http://www.trustworthycomputing.com/

This is NGTCB. The submitted obviously hasn't been keeping up with Newspeak. Don't worry, I've already reported them to Minitrue.

Some of us remember when students spent often months or years to port their thesis project from one unix to another one. BSD, Ultrix, Digital Unix, OSF/1, Tru64, now HP/UX or maybe Solaris, SunOS, AIX, FreeBSD, NetBSD, or Linux. You name it. Even two Linux versions from different distributors are not compatible. Not to mention the time wasted with miserable tools like gdb, dbx etc.. Every time the new system was The Future system. And every time it was migration season, followed by a rude awakening. Not only did the names change. Even most simple things like string manipulation changed. Sure you can write an ANSI C application, but unfortunately that is not always Posix compatible. Remember Posix? THE unix standard - dream. How much frustration. If you spend your valuable time on doing the Unix-to-Unix migration yourself, then you will find out the truth! There are research projects which spent years just on porting their software from one unix to another unix flavor, just to realize that the funding agencies had enough.

(Open)VMS is and will always be VMS, not Unix. There is only one VMS standard. That is good! It saved many smart people a lot of time.

Remember what was one of the most important reasons for universities to drop VMS in the past? Licenses! But let's do a reality check: today universities and labs pay tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars per year for RedHat Linux. They really do! Sure, some students know they can download Linux for free. But do they tell their advisor that they spend weeks and months on installation, configuration, updates and other daily trouble? Let's be honest!

Did you know that you can get a VMS compatible computer with Alpha processor at eBay for cheap and, the VMS licenses from HP even for free? VMS is professional software. That includes compilers and many other first class tools. VMS software tools are excellent. And if you want it really cheap, then replace the hardware with an emulator for free (like SIMH), just to get started today. So you get all you need to study a modern alternative. For free!

Why would any student want to miss what experts appreciate at stock exchanges, agencies like the NSA, health care providers, and many other places were performance, reliability, security and organization is everything? These experts know why they use VMS. Do you know what you are missing? The lemmings follow the lemmings who have seen only one system, or maybe two, and pretend to be experts. If Linux Master Installer or MCSE and an average curriculum vitae is not good enough for you, then have a look at VMS.

Remember why people ditched VMS? That's right. Licenses. Ironical, isn't it?

One more question for the women among the students here: would you ever call for a "man" or even type "man" into a computer to get help? :-) Well, on a VMS system you enter HELP and help is what you get. A lot of excellent help!

Now, move your mouse cursor to http://www.openvmsedu.com/ if you are a student or teacher. Talk to your school! And those of you who like to be more than dead meat at the weekend go to http://www.openvmshobbyist.com/ This is cool free stuff from experts.

Oh, and of course the Bill Gates followers find themselves home at http://www.trustworthycomputing.com/

Cheers!

Since it may not be obvious to all readers, be aware that when you can make a program crash by feeding it bad data, you can typically further manipulate the data you are sending it to take control of the program. That means a security hole. This is how buffer-overruns work. You can't always do it, but you can think of each way you can crash a program as a little "crack" in its exterior. If you can figure out a way to pry apart the crack, you've got yourself a hole.

So many of these "bugs" in Mozilla, Opera, Lynx, and Links are likely security holes as well.

It is interesting, then, to see that Internet Explorer did so well on this, with its notoriously bad history on security. My first instinct would be that the HTML parsing engine in Internet Explorer was written by a different team of programmers than worked on the rest of the software, and they used proper programming techniques (such as RAII in C++, or perhaps used one of their .NET languages, rather than programming in straight C like the others) which as a side effect prevented such problems.

Let's hope that all these bugs are taken care of in the other browsers quickly before the black hats find ways to make use of them.

So, they have a reason for it to be released, but they don't actually know why or how it got released... so... maybe 'they haven't got a clue' is a bit of overstatement, but they certainly don't have the whole clue.

I meant the comment as a double entendre. Not only are they clueless as it pertains to issuing patches for their products, but Microsoft is simply clueless when it comes to security as a whole (aka www.trustworthycomputing.com). I mean seriously! Two years of shouting how serious they are about security, and they're scheduling when patches will be released?! Did anyone expect any better?

And that folks is why we laugh at Microsoft.

Lest we forget...

www.trustworthycomputing.com

Personally, I still prefer "Trustworthy Computing" over "Trusted Computing."

At Microsoft, as part of our drive to create a more trustworthy computing environment, we are significantly stepping up our efforts to fight spam and its pollution of the email ecosystem.

Wonderful! I can't wait to reap the benefits of yet another Microsoft promise, like their wildy successful Trustworthy Computing initiative, the results of which can be seen here

& other weighs to attempt to LIEv on both sides, of yOUR wallet.

lookout bullow. run for your options/soul, should you have any left?

gov.va.msn.?net? (VAST)? not likely.

yOUR creator is participating, you may speculate on its position in these (& related, long term devastation) matters, if you want to.

yuk.

details at gov.va.msn.?net? (VAST)?

lookout bullow. the next big thing is almost guaranteed to be softwar gangster payper liesense BugWear(tm) free? we won't get fooled again?

i DOWt that you can 'force' goodness, any more than you can eradicate evile.

a more accurate analogy of the softwar gangster scenario might also be found in the big apple's history.

pay attention, that's affordable/timely.

gov.va.msn.?net? (VAST)? i DOWt it. lookout bullow.

i thought we went over this?

lookout bullow. divest in gov.va.msn?net? (VAST), before its too late.

remember the genetic korn blight.

whoAre peddling sum phonIE payper liesense stock markup bullshipping scammage, whilst attempting briberious cowardly ?pr? fud0cide on the hobbyist dogooders.

looks like the cesspool is backing dupes all the weigh up to the SourceForgerIE(tm) buy now. whoring for the evile wons is won way to ?survive? the 'hard times' to come?

gov.va.msn.?net? (VAST)?

this is what you wanted? robbIE?

this is what you wanted? this must be some sort of pun(ishment)?

once upon a time, there were to partIEs, now that they are won, the partIE's overbullown?

that's gov.va.msn.?net?(as in fishes) (VAST) .controll??

all icann say is: lookout bullow.

being graNTdead a shipload of funnIE monIE.

lookout bullow. we'll grant you that won.

you can almost hear your hair grow around here at gov.va.msn.?net? (VAST). what style of vibrantshuns is that?

consult yOUR creator frequently regarding matters of the heart/mind/wallet.

whoAre peddling sum phonIE payper liesense stock markup bullshipping scammage, whilst attempting briberious cowardly ?pr? fud0cide on the hobbyist dogooders.

looks like the cesspool is backing dupes all the weigh up to the SourceForgerIE(tm) buy now. sleeping with/whoring for the evile wons is won way to ?survive? the 'hard times' to come?

gov.va.msn.?net? (VAST)?

this is what you wanted? robbIE?

whoAre peddling sum phonIE payper liesense stock markup bullshipping scammage, whilst attempting briberious cowardly ?pr? fud0cide on the hobbyist dogooders.

looks like the cesspool is backing dupes all the weigh up to the SourceForgerIE(tm) buy now. sleeping with/whoring for the evile wons is won way to ?survive? the 'hard times' to come?

gov.va.msn.?net? (VAST)?

this is what you wanted? robbIE?

up yOUR .asp, buy Godless greed/fear based payper liesense hostage ransom stock markup FUDgePeddlers, such .asp can be found DOWt at gov.va.msn.?net?, (VAST)?

lookout bullow. run for your options, should you have any left? after all of this phonIE ?pr? bullshipping scammage settles, we'll be fortunate to have ANY accurate 'memorIEs'.

lookout bullow. &, as always, consult with yOUR creator regarding matters of the heart/mind/wallet.

taking monIE for anything without adding value, is negative energy/theft.

billyonerrors stealing, & using the ill gotten gains to prevent free commerce, is against all the 'laws' of God, & coincidentally, math & physics.

the gravity theory, has yet to be disproven.

gov.va.msn.?net? (VAST), that's a gooed won. lookout bullow.

greed/fear based ?pr? bullshipping, from those Godless felons upon the pacific crest/capitollist hill annex of wall street of deceit.

lookout bullow. run for your options, should you have any?

look to yOUR creator, be suspicious of ?information? supplied buy .gov.va.msn.?net? (VAST)

philosophy? more like phonIE bullonly space filler.

anger? management? fear? greed? it's all won thing as far as we're concerned.

all that will be re-solved when there's onLIEn won 'channel' left?

lookout bullow. J.'s not buying into the last gasper attempts to re-incarnate the wall street of deceit bullshipping industrIE.

rumour has it that the creator is still looking for a few billion honest folks to help with the reclamation/restoration of the planet. no experience required.

more details about the whoreabull saycrud kode heist at gov.va.msn.?net?, (VAST), aka, the .commissarIE.

we'll be fortunate if we get out of this cessspool with any memorIEs/chips, etc...

lookout bullow. the daze of the Godless greed/fear/death based payper liesense hostage ransom stock markup bullshipping industrIE, is dissolving into coolapps.

gov.va.msn.?net?/~search? (VAST) effort to funnell US.

check with yOUR creator, before making any decisions that will affect all of us from now on.

va lairIE's pateNTdead PostBlock(tm) device, etc...

what's all this censorship about robbIE? everywon not pleased with the planned gov.va.msn.?net? (VAST) spinoffskIE?

lookout bullow. i guess you're getting the picture on that won.

wait'll 'they' see the creator's 'accounting' system.

the oil for babies(tm) program is meeting resistance from the fortunate 500?

rumours that the US is going to be renamed uSUK, in order to couNTer the shitslide of bad ?pr? the corepirate states are eXPeriencing.

censorship? information FUDging? what's up?

"In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself more successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding, they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm because it left no redue behind. Just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird."

despite the whoreabull censorship efforts used buy va lairIE, & his patentdead PostBlock(tm) device.

power to whoisit?

gov.va.msn.?net? (VAST)? i DOWt it.

stay tuned..., the creator is participating.

it just doesn't work.

what else isn't working?

lookout bullow. the evile Godless felons upon the pacific crest annex of capitollist hills, is dissolving into coolapps as we become senseless censored puppets of those whoreabull payper liesense stock markup frauds. Frequent consultation with yOUR creator is never more important than now. wait'll those larcenious mammonites see the creator's accounting system.

va.msn.?net? (VAST)?

like pearls soaked in the cesspool of fear/greed, so goes the daze of yOUR LIEves?

& pretending it's won of the liesense feechurns. the last BIG DOWnload. then you'll have trouble, trying to browse for anything that isn't packed in billonlyUS FUDge.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Mi cr osoft-Warning.html

it'll be like the storIE of the felonious billyunerr, who crIEd 'patch', won too many times.

consult your creator often, about this, & other matters relating the wholesale deception that's been wrought upon US, buy evil greed/fear based megalomaniacs.

lookout bullow. don't come crying to us, when there's only won channel left (for US, that is).

gov.va.msn.?net? (VAST)

for after the souceforgerIE goos DOWn?

eugenia.va.msn.?net? (VAST), amouNT of payper liesense stock markup bs?

PostBlock(tm) device, etc... definitely prehysteric.

lookout bullow. run for your options, should you have any left? the daze of the Godless frauduleNT payper liesense badtol,l are nearing an end.

va.msn.?net? (VAST)? not likely.

in this case, the proper expression would be: "they've hoisted themselves on their own copyright petard".

lookout bullow. rumour has it that fuddles has also left folk's holding/emailing out, millions of 'draft' documents, that .contain even more evidence of high FUDgerIE.

va.msn.?net? (VAST)? last gaspers at best.

in this case, the proper expression would be: "they've hoisted themselves on their own copyright petard".

lookout bullow. rumour has it that fuddles has also left folk's holding/emailing out, millions of 'draft' documents, that .contain even more evidence of high FUDgerIE.

va.msn.?net? (VAST)? last gaspers at best.

hoping/pretending that it really is 'dark' all the time, everywhere, & that no won else can see your/their plight, or anything else.

a few billyun more patches/subscriptions/liesenses must be an order.

lookout bullow.

va.msn.?NET? (VAST)? that's a gooed won?

yet another circumvention of va lairIE's patentdead PostBlock(tm) device has been recorded buy hour eyecon0meter(gpl).

go to jail. go directly to jail. pay 500 thousand dollar fine. that should help sales.

beware the Godless payper liesense, hostage ransom, last gasper stock markup felons from upon the pacific crest annex of wash.dc.msn.?NET? (govIE)

all the more reasons to avoid the whoreabull BugWear(tm) blight all together now.

tell 'em robbIE. you ?work? for them/US, right? tell 'em.

likely. fauxking wIEnIE bouys is all that's left here.

you KNOW the phonIE payper thing is toastdead, right?

you're probably won of those who has yet to take the free visual studio test drive? damn you. damn all of you foems.

the source forgerIE will live on. there'll be no 'last post'. not in your tiny lifetime.

look for va.msn.?NET? (VAST)?

even more bull.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/26/national/26GRAN. html

see also: va.msn.?NET? (VAST), aka: some megalomaniacal greed/fear based last gasper attempt to .controll everything.

on the NYT.

lookout bullow. the evile kingdumb is coming DOWn.

billwg - 06:40pm Feb 24, 2003 EST (# 6496 of 6498)

The small point: CDS ARE NOT BETTER THAN RECORDS.

The point: DVD IS NOT BETTER THAN VHS HI-FI.

My point: CABLE IS NOT BETTER THAN BROADCAST.

At the risk of sounding like the craigster, ghetto man, I will have to say that your ideas are bizarre and you are generally full of hot air. You try and fail to make any point. By any metric, the signal to noise ratios and the signal fidelity of CDs, DVDs, and Digital Cable transmission lines are substantially better than their predecessor vinyl records, analog magnetic tape, and airwave broadcasts. Perhaps you pine for the good old days, too, but they are gone forever.

Xbox is dead. It died even before it could reach the 8 million units necessary before game writers would consider developing for it.

You better go buy a newspaper from this year, ghetto man, in which you will find that Xbox recently surpassed the 9 million mark and is at the low end of the anticipated adoption range. The economy is to blame for the deviation, it is said. I think that can be accepted as an answer at this point in time. I'm not sure where you got your notion of 8 million units as a magic watershed, either, but it is still in the past.

Contrary to PR extolling the maturity of Bill Gates owing to his family ways, this Java hating is the child like actions of a school yard bully.

I think you are just jealous of a person more successful by far than your own humble self, ghetto man! Mr. Gates is far from petty as is shown by his extensive and continued largesse. Even in regard to Java, Mr. Gates was initially most expansive and I even remember getting a letter purporting to be from him touting Java as a wonderful thing made more wonderful by the assistance of the J++ development environment. He said he used it himself for fun and profit.

The problem with Java is that McNealy only saw it as a way to try to gain back some unit shares for his overpriced wares via the WORA notion, assumming that people would somehow want a SPARC if it could only do Word and Excel. Bill Gates saw that the true value of the language and the execution environment lay in the ease of distribution and the security of execution made possible by the sandbox approach. But McNealy violently resisted any of the improvements that Microsoft wanted to make to give the user a better, faster, and more exciting experience and quashed the whole exercise with their viscious lawsuits.

That drove Microsoft into having once again to produce their own initiatives, as they had to do with the Netscape browser, due to this dog-in-the-manger kind of thinking on the part of McNealy. I think most people can see who is trying to make things better and who is trying to keep things from the market. Can't you?

It is time to take a step back to trustworthy main frame computing and not a time to trust new .net technology.

LOL, ghetto man! What would you have the world do? Mail in their Fortran card decks for an overnight run? "Holy, \\sysin dd*, batman!"

don't even bother looking for va.msn.?NET?, (VAST), as it's gone pottIE too.

meanwhile:

?pr? shills from the ill eagle kingdumb of phonIE payper liesense stock markup FraUD.

billwg - 05:53pm Feb 21, 2003 EST (# 6460 of 6462)

SCO, has a strong claim and with Boies to make the argument, the penguins might be pecking no more!

Well
it's against the law! Anyone can give away software if they steal it
from the rightful copyright holders. Now let's see what the open
sourcerers can do if they have to obey the law for once.

billwg - 05:59pm Feb 21, 2003 EST (# 6461 of 6462)

SCO
is, of course, not the Santa Cruz Operation that the unixers once loved
and that once tried to bring unix to the intel world. SCO is the new
shell inhabited by that software hermit crab Caldera and funded by
Novell Noorda in an attempt to bring consternation and uncertainty to
the computing world. The penguins may wish to note that he is a pew
mate of the staid Orren Hatch who is spoiling for a comeback from his
inauspicious showing against Herr Gates. Live in real fear, penguins!
LOL!!!

see also: va. msn.?NET? (VAST) [trustworthycomputing.com] -1

fuddles 'version' of the gnu free wwworld of open/honest communications/commerce. lookout bullow.

a second version for those who need repetition to understand:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8& oe =UTF-8&q=microsoft+%22bill+weisgerber%22&btnG=Goog le+Search

the unabashed version, for those who require real IT:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8& oe =UTF-8&q=microsoft+dirty+deals%22&btnG=Google+Sear ch

see also: va.msn.?NeT? (VAST) surveilance abilitIEs?

we wouldN'T give 10 ceNTs for va lairIE's pateNTdead PostBlock(tm) device. that's around the price of the phonIE payper, no? whois the massturd of the sourceforgerIE? stay tuned...

?pr? shills from the ill eagle kingdumb of phonIE payper liesense stock markup FraUD.

billwg - 05:53pm Feb 21, 2003 EST (# 6460 of 6462)

SCO, has a strong claim and with Boies to make the argument, the penguins might be pecking no more!

Well it's against the law! Anyone can give away software if they steal it from the rightful copyright holders. Now let's see what the open sourcerers can do if they have to obey the law for once.

billwg - 05:59pm Feb 21, 2003 EST (# 6461 of 6462)

SCO is, of course, not the Santa Cruz Operation that the unixers once loved and that once tried to bring unix to the intel world. SCO is the new shell inhabited by that software hermit crab Caldera and funded by Novell Noorda in an attempt to bring consternation and uncertainty to the computing world. The penguins may wish to note that he is a pew mate of the staid Orren Hatch who is spoiling for a comeback from his inauspicious showing against Herr Gates. Live in real fear, penguins! LOL!!!

see also: va. msn.?NET? (VAST) -1

• va lairIE's pateNTdead PostBlock(tm) device by Anonymous Coward (Score:-1) Friday February 21, @08:01AM

Under penalty of perjury, Microsoft represented in court that the patent license as signed between the two companies may cause widespread, even devastating hardship to its customers," Osenbaugh continued. "Yet, no specific mention of the case, to our knowledge, has been made in Microsoft's Securities and Exchange Commission filings. This omission is particularly troublesome since the decision of the Court of Appeals was in March 2002. We have great difficulty seeing how Microsoft can remain silent in its SEC filings. Silence certifies the litigation results are not material to Microsoft, which is contrary to the court's finding on the same specific issue based upon evidence submitted by Microsoft itself."

Furthermore, several SQL Server developers are openly discussing their beliefs that Microsoft should be liable for any damages they face for having relied upon Microsoft's prior false statement; specifically that Microsoft would 'ensure' they were 'unencumbered' by the Timeline patents.

"If Microsoft does not want to pay for a broader license, it owes a duty to its customers and investors to clearly define the limitations on Microsoft's ability to sublicense Timeline's patents and outline its indemnification policy, if any, for those who relied upon its prior statement. Furthermore, Microsoft should honor its agreement to facilitate our efforts to properly enforce Timeline's intellectual property rights with Microsoft customers," Osenbaugh concluded.--

lookout bullow. run for your options should you have any left?

see also: va.msn.?NET? (VAST)

liesense frauds.

"At Lehman, the Case of the Buried Stock Ratings
By GRETCHEN MORGENSON

IT is something of a Wall Street mystery: When did Holly B. Becker of Lehman Brothers, the No. 1-ranked Internet analyst in America, stop covering the sector and why weren't Lehman's clients notified about it? (Or, for that matter, Fidelity's -- which distributes Lehman's research?)

Ms. Becker wrote her last research note at the firm -- the subject was Priceline.com -- on June 27, 2002. Her final Internet industry update, initially published on June 14, was included in the firm's weekly research piece dated June 24. Throughout last summer, Ms. Becker's ratings -- including buy recommendations on Yahoo, the Internet search engine, and Alloy, a youth-oriented Web site -- remained intact. Clients who called to speak with her during this time were told that she was on maternity leave; her assistants, though not free to talk with customers, were holding the fort, clients say they were told.

It was also during this time that Ms. Becker was notified by securities regulators that she and her husband, Michael J. Zimmerman, a trader at SAC Capital Advisors, a giant hedge fund, could face charges of insider trading. Investigators in the case are examining whether Mr. Zimmerman received copies of Lehman Brothers research before its publication and profited based on the reports. According to two people briefed on the investigation, Lehman Brothers suspended Ms. Becker in June. Lehman is not a target of the investigation.

Oddly, though, it was not until Sept. 16, 2002, that Lehman quietly changed the ratings on Ms. Becker's stocks in its weekly research review. The buy ratings, "2's" in Lehman's lexicon, fell to "4's," the identifier when a rating is suspended. But nowhere in that report did the firm note whether Ms. Becker's status at the firm had changed; her name, title and telephone number still appeared in its final pages.

Nor did the rating changes appear elsewhere in the report, where such moves are highlighted. Only a careful reader turning to the back of the report, where the firm lists all the companies it follows, might have noticed that the ratings on Ms. Becker's stocks had been suspended.

None of this would matter except for two facts. First, the stocks Ms. Becker rated a buy -- Yahoo and Alloy -- were quite volatile during the summer. From the date of Ms. Becker's last industry update to the date the firm suspended her ratings, Yahoo lost 36 percent of its value, and Alloy fell 28 percent. Lehman had underwritten a secondary offering of Alloy's shares in February 2002 at $15.21 each.

A fund manager who is a Lehman client, but who declined to be identified, said, "For ratings to go out when the analyst had not done any work on these names for months is pretty abominable."

That Lehman would not be more forthcoming about Ms. Becker's status is also remarkable, given that Wall Street's research practices were under scrutiny by securities regulators much of last year. Over the summer, in fact, regulators devised rules governing analyst activities that are intended to make their conflicts more apparent.

One new rule will require brokerage firms to advise clients when they discontinue research coverage on a company. Notice of the withdrawal, it states, "must be made in the same manner as when research coverage was first initiated" by the firm and must include the analyst's final recommendation or rating. Meant to curtail the Wall Street practice of quietly dropping coverage on companies, instead of officially downgrading them, the rule, along with the others, is pending while the industry comments.

Lehman declined to comment on the situation, and Ms. Becker's lawyer said he could not reach Ms. Becker and could not comment. So the mystery remains unsolved."

tell 'em robbIE. tell 'em about the bearsonstearno.

lookout bullow. run for your options, should you have any left?

va.msn.?net? (VAST)?

i DOWt googoo is responsibull for any of the larcenious payper liesense hypenosys that fuddles, robbIE, lairIE, et AL, are .consorting on.

don't buy into va.msn.?net? (VAST), until the sourceforgerIE/fuddles 'partnership' announcemeNT is made.

lookout bullow. run for your options, should you have any left?

kingdumb.

that's write. every daze more&more phonIE payper liesense stock markup ?pr? FUDge is peddled buy all who have soul DOWt.

tell 'em robbIE.

look for: va.msn.?net? (VAST) (array of FraUDuleNT billyunerrs).

lookout bullow. tell 'em robbIE/lairIE.

relationships?

since the receNT demise of the Godless payper liesense hostage ransom stock markup fraud bullshipping industrIE, upon the pacific crest, being aware of whoare you eNTering into ?relationships? with, has become more important than ever before.

look for va.msn.?net? (VAST) relationships?

all fud, all the time. it doesn't get any better than this?

long term divesting? .contemplating some brand gnu coolapps? lookout bullow for even more billonlyUS FUDgerIE.

2003-02-05 GATES, WILLIAM H. III
Chairman 1,000,000 Sale at $46.87 - $48.15 per share.
(Proceeds of about $47,510,000)
2003-02-03 GATES, WILLIAM H. III
Chairman 1,000,000 Sale at $48.28 - $49.05 per share.
(Proceeds of about $48,665,000)

bye, i mean sell, i mean dump.

look for:va.msn.?net? (VAST)?

* Linux represents a best-of-breed UNIX, that is trusted in mission critical applications, and - due to it's open source code - has a long term credibility which exceeds many other competitive OS's.

* Most of the primary apps that people require when they move to Linux are already available for free. This includes web servers, POP clients, mail servers, text editors, etc

* An advanced Win32 GUI user would have a short learning cycle to become productive [under Linux].

* I previously had IE4/NT4 on the same box and by comparison the combination of Linux / Navigator ran at least 30-40% faster when rendering simple HTML + graphics.

* Long term, my simple experiments do indicate that Linux has a chance at the desktop market ...

* Consumers Love It.

* Linux's (real and perceived) virtues over Windows NT include: Customization ... Availability/Reliability ... Scaleability/Performance ... Interoperability ...

* Linux is emerging as a key operating system in the nascent thin server market

* Using today's server requirements, Linux is a credible alternative to commercial developed servers in many, high volume applications.

* The effect of patents and copyright in combatting Linux remains to be investigated.

* Note, however, that Compaq and Dell merely have to credibly threaten Linux adoption in order to push for lower OEM OS pricing.

if you only need more ?pr? hypenosys, visit trustworthycomputing.com. all html, all the time.

long term divesting?

2003-02-05 GATES, WILLIAM H. III
Chairman 1,000,000 Sale at $46.87 - $48.15 per share.
(Proceeds of about $47,510,000)
2003-02-03 GATES, WILLIAM H. III
Chairman 1,000,000 Sale at $48.28 - $49.05 per share.
(Proceeds of about $48,665,000)

bye, i mean sell, i mean dump.

look for:va.msn.?net? (VAST)?

* Linux represents a best-of-breed UNIX, that is trusted in mission critical applications, and - due to it's open source code - has a long term credibility which exceeds many other competitive OS's.

* Most of the primary apps that people require when they move to Linux are already available for free. This includes web servers, POP clients, mail servers, text editors, etc

* An advanced Win32 GUI user would have a short learning cycle to become productive [under Linux].

* I previously had IE4/NT4 on the same box and by comparison the combination of Linux / Navigator ran at least 30-40% faster when rendering simple HTML + graphics.

* Long term, my simple experiments do indicate that Linux has a chance at the desktop market ...

* Consumers Love It.

* Linux's (real and perceived) virtues over Windows NT include: Customization ... Availability/Reliability ... Scaleability/Performance ... Interoperability ...

* Linux is emerging as a key operating system in the nascent thin server market

* Using today's server requirements, Linux is a credible alternative to commercial developed servers in many, high volume applications.

* The effect of patents and copyright in combatting Linux remains to be investigated.

* Note, however, that Compaq and Dell merely have to credibly threaten Linux adoption in order to push for lower OEM OS pricing.

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look for va.msn.?net? (VAST)? not likely.

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tell 'em robbIE.

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don't knowbody say the G, L, O, F, etc... words?

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