Gates and Lasser on Palladium

A rather funny juxtaposition this morning - Bill Gates or someone with his signature stamp sent a spam-gram to pretty much everyone who receives any sort of Microsoft email: Bill only mentions Digital Rights Management in one throw-away sentence. And like most other spam, he promises it's a one-time mailing. On the other hand, Jon Lasser of Think Unix fame takes a harsher look at Microsoft's vision of a world where your computer is trusted against you.

Comments

Ahhh

[Chetmurray]

I would never would have thought MS would spam, that is something only desperate companies do.

And here I thought that was a personal note to me. I have spent the last three hours writing my personal reply. Guess I will just send it to this nice Nigerian man who just emailed me, he just suffered a personal tragedy and seems to need some support.

Chet

Re:The Hipocracy!

[daeley]

It's because their posts are done with Wizards, don't you know. :)

Why you'll never get another message like this

[Lumpish Scholar]

We're also working with others throughout the industry to improve Internet protocols to stop email that could propagate misleading information ...

... like this message you've just sent, Bill?-)