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Microsoft to do for Usenet what it did for Email & The Web?
tjones2 writes "Seems like Microsoft isn't content with sad state of email these days. They now want to "make engaging with communities easier and friendlier". This means extending their reach into Usenet." Fortunately most of Usenet is such a cespool that really they can only make it better. And after cornering the market on email worms, imagine the benefits they can bring to NNTP!
What did microsoft do for email and the web?
When just about any cracker worth his salt can start a news group, what the hell do you expect. I can give you one hell of a good reason for MS to sql weasel into usenet. To find crackz and warez and get the servers shut down. They have tried in the past but their usenet trolls kind of fell flat. I just wonder what they are up to now. Maybe that is why they are licensing sco, they might need some real multi proccessor power to crunch the numbers to get at the thieves and scoundrals that steal MS software world wide. Even the clever Chinese won't be able to hide from MS UNIX. Bill is just sitting there gritting his teeth and swearing under his breath about the fact that Inet tech can be free from MS domination and control. He wants the world and he wants it now. LETS GIVE IT TO HIM. Use Linux, BSD, APPLE or anything else and let him eat cake, and play with his XBOX.
OH THE SHAME I fell off the wagon and use sigs again!
"So what's wrong with some elitism."
People go to all kinds of messageboards (including Slashdot, where they get modded up to +5 Insightful), talking about how stupid and elitist the Linux community is and how nobody should use Linux and that Linux will never succeed etc. etc.
Google already does this to a certain degree
Shocking. To think that the innovative Microsoft would consider swiping someone else's ideas. What has the world come to?
May we never see th
The news groups? Really? That's incredibly exciting! I bet next week they will revolutionize gopher!
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