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Microsoft Battles Free Software at Pentagon
Spirit of Ishmael writes "The May 22 Washington Post is running a story under the headline Microsoft Fights Free Software at Pentagon. According to the story: 'Microsoft Corp. is aggressively lobbying the Pentagon to squelch its growing use of freely distributed computer software and switch to proprietary systems such as those sold by the software giant, according to officials familiar with the campaign.'"
Battle at the Pentagon? It is indeed the time the Empire is Striking Back with all its might. The fall of Microsoft does not seem to be so distant any more...
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Is it just me or is the level of mcse's rising? I notice a lot of balding 30 year olds (mcses' rarely have facial hair like us unix bastards) that run a pretty tight microsoft network. For example yesterday my hard drive in my windows 2000 machine was getting a little flaky, so I tested it and sure enough it was stuck in PIO 2 mode (wouldn't even go to 3 or 4) and I emailed the IT dept to fix it. Not exepecting to ever see any of that data again I backed it up on a cacheing proxy I run for the tech support group. To my surprize they had installed windows xp, and imported everything all the way down to the wall paper on my desktop, pretty slick.
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Is it your intent to prove how little you know about computer systems to bring up that myth about NT crippling a Navy ship?
Just curious because when that article originally surfaced in '97 it was quite apparent from the problem description to anybody knowledgeable that the problem was caused by the third party software running on top of the OS, and not the OS itself.
This is sort of like the morons who have a bad modem claiming the Internet is broken.