The Agilent spin-off was done under CEO/Chairman Lew Platt. And Walter Hewlett was on the board at that time, also. And who's to say there wouldn't have been 15,000 layoffs between the two companies?
And perhaps "they" just want to keep the average joe from using encryption so as to keep the background noise low. If encrypted messages were the norm how much harder would it be just to pick out the suspicious senders.
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The Agilent spin-off was done under CEO/Chairman Lew Platt. And Walter Hewlett was on the board at that time, also. And who's to say there wouldn't have been 15,000 layoffs between the two companies?
Sure got a lot of people riled.
And perhaps "they" just want to keep the average joe from using encryption so as to keep the background noise low. If encrypted messages were the norm how much harder would it be just to pick out the suspicious senders.
I think they're worried about their advertising revenues. What they want is to keep you in your chair while they flash blipverts at you.
Hmmm, the problem may lie in MS having millions to waste on this... do Linux developers have millions to defend with?