Yeah, my exceptionally slow compressor counts the number of "one" bits and the number of "zero" bits. It stores those two numbers, along with several position-dependent checksums. Compression is very fast.
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I guess I know where you're posting from... but you can't say the same for all of us;)
I think that if there were actually a free market (and, even in the good ol' US of A, there ain't nothin' of the sort), we'd see the market correct itself. Unfortunately, as we've seen with companies like Network Solutions, the transition of Government-funded organizations into corporations yields the worst of both worlds: monopolistic bureaucracies with horrible customer service.
Unlike Network Solutions, though, you'll find that the security industry won't be a monopoly. The alternatives will step up to fill the void, and CERT will find itself without subscribers. In fact, this has already begun with professional security firms like securityfocus.com who use public resources like BugTraq to provide high-speed responses.
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Back in the day, if you needed to take some classified document home to work on it (which was pretty much impossible to do), you'd just have to go to the newsstand and buy a copy of Aviation Weekly (which everyone called aviation leakly). They'd have classified stuff in there all the time.
To get back on subject, companies tend to use the words "proprietary," "secret," and "intellectual property" in non-compete documents much as Microsoft uses the words "innovate" and "enterprise." It's when they're desperate, but don't know how to stop the pain. bukra fil mish mish -
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I've done some of these things. The house is quite insulated. I have no air-conditioning, since I'm close enough to the ocean that it doesn't get above 85 degrees (F) very often. I almost never use the dishwasher, although, in fact, it may be more efficient than washing by hand.
I have a Neptune washer. Dryer and Hot Water heater are natural-gas powered.
Some things I could do: I could probably upgrade the refrigerator to a more energy-efficient version. I could scrap the web hosting that I do for non-profits. I could get rid of the security system.
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What you're leaving out is that throughout the early 90s, the California Power companies went on an outrageous binge of buying up power suppliers and other companies... OUTSIDE of California (primarily Central/South America). Now we consumers get to finance their purchases, without having had an opportunity to prevent the errors in the first place. bukra fil mish mish -
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When cross-platform really means cross-platform (anyone tried to write a standalone app in Java and get it to work on all
UNIXes as well as MSFT systems?)
Why yes, yes I have.
Of course, it is a server/service collection, that talks HTML over HTTP to a web browser for the GUI. I find the only Java stuff that really is hard to make work cross-platform is the GUI.
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In the particular agency in question, I suspect that you'd have a hard time getting anything via FOIA. Although, admittedly, they're a lot less restrictive today, and they do release some code to the community.
For a fascinating view of how the FOIA can be subverted (if you're not willing to spend millions of dollars), check out the book "Gimme Some Truth: the John Lennon FBI Files" by John Wiener (or check out the web support site at http://www.lennonfbifiles.com/).
A lot of code gets classified, not because it has anything secret in it, but because they don't want to share it (also, the more classified documents you generate, the less likely you are to get fired, but that's another story). Also, a lot of fairly mundane code gets classified because it could lead you to ideas that might suggest to you something that *is* classified. bukra fil mish mish -
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First, I want to say that I've been using Nedit for probably seven years, and I've always thought it was the best thing out there. Someone mentioned that it eased the transition from PC/Mac to Unix, and that was certainly true for me. So thanks for your great work!
When I first used Nedit, I was working for a government-related agency, which had restrictions on what kinds of software could be run. Because Mark Edel hosted the source on a Fermi Labs machine, I was able to weasel around some of those restrictions. This, of course, was not before GNU but was well before the Open Source movement gained its groundswell of popularity. When the movement did gain popular momentum, it was looked upon with distrust and suspicion within the agency where I worked. There were offhand references to Communism and anarchy whenever people heard my enthusiasm. Likewise, when I wanted to give out source to some utilities I wrote, I was summarily shot down and chastised -- "this was paid for by the Government!" I was told (which was exactly my point; they just had a different conclusion as to what that meant).
So... how did you convince Fermi Labs (or the DOE) to allow source distribution in the first place? Did you run into any difficulties when you decided to change the license? Did you have to get permission within the organization? If so, what did you need to do to get approval?
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As a personal policy, I don't accept gifts for the holidays. I have enough stuff. Here are a few suggestions for people who wanna give me something. If you're interested, email me for a bunch of other worthy organizations!
Donation to ORT (http://www.ort.org/ort/wou/wou.htm). ORT is a Jewish organization that builds vocational schools around the world. Instead of giving people food or money, ORT teaches people high-tech skills like writing code, repairing computers, and other jobs that'll allow them to bring themselves out of poverty.
Donation to MDRC (http://www.mdrc.org). The MDRC is an organization that researches the best ways of improving the lives of low-income people, ranging from literacy programs to vocational training. (More US-centric than ORT).
Donation to EFF (http://www.eff.org). The Electronic Frontier Foundation is one of the few political organizations that understands high-tech issues, and lobbies for, litigates for, and generally supports electronic freedom (via U.S. legal system).
Donation to Amnesty International (http://www.amnesty.org). In some places, organizations like the EFF are not sufficient; you say the wrong thing, you're thrown in jail. Amnesty tries to pressure governments to follow the Geneva Convention and respect human rights.
Donation to PeaceFire (http://www.peacefire.org). An organization that fights censorship of the web, and points out the incompetence and hypocrisy of the would-be censors.
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Have you actually read the source? Understood it? All of it?
I personally don't have the time to read through each new version of, say, glibc, to find that it's clean. Now, I happen to believe that it's fine, but that's a faith-based opinion, not a knowledge-based one. And it only takes a few lines of source buried deep in some function to open up a back door.
In any case, you've got a better shot at finding backdoors with Open Source, but it's not like a back door'll jump out at you and wave, just because it's in an Open Source program.
Eternal vigilance, etc...
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It's dangerous to label an agency that, collectively, has done stupid things as being stupid. There are some very intelligent people who work for the FBI (or just about any other organzation).
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Frankly, I was quite underwhelmed with the suggestions. They all basically add up to cheap, low-tech encryption or security by obscurity methods.
Some were flat-out wrong. Going through an email proxy doesn't help if they're sniffing your connection by IP address. I'm not convinced that Carnovore doesn't do this (nor am I convinced that it does. But I wouldn't base my security strategy on the weaker assumption). Likewise, forging an email address is not going to trick the system. The FBI isn't stupid.
Obviously, strong encryption is the best solution. Although there is a precedent for having passwords *not* protected as free speech under the 5th amendment, it does give you your best shot at keeping communications secure.
Steganography's also probably a reasonable choice. Get a good digital camera, and send out a lot of pictures to your friends. Some may have messages. Most don't.
Chaffing models might be good, but might not.
Also, techniques like the old "saturate Echelon" approach, where you *always* tag on keywords like semtex, Nidal, West Bank, UN, ammo, NSA, NRO, ZOG, etc. to your messages. If everyone did it, and varied the list, it'd clog their system eventually...
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If you update something and it loads you a new version of sopme shared library, it could hose other packages. And that *really* sucks.
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Take it from someone who drives a mighty schnazzy vehicle -- the kinds of chicks who swarm you aren't the kinds of chicks you want to date. They're turning you into a symbol of *money*, and that's what they're looking for.
And, for you women out there, when my girlfriend drives it, she says it's the skeeziest of guys who give her the most attention...
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It's just that when I was a godless commie Warez swappin' Hotline-usin' no-good SOB, I was also a otherly-grammared, politically correct phraseologist.
Now that I'm a godless Corporatist profiteering flak, I am once again a grammar pedant. I use apostrophes correctly (even with the word "its" versus "it's"), I attempt to preserve voice whenever possible, and I never say "quote" when I mean "quotation."
Grammar is just another natural transition engendered by such a political shift; others are exemplified by driving a Porsche Boxster instead of a '69 Volvo Stationwagon, dating a woman named Elizabeth instead of one named Sunshine, and drinking dry martinis instead of Ernest & Julio jug wine.
OK. I admit it. Even with all those changes, I'm still a godless commie Warez swappin' Hotline-usin' no-good SOB. So sue me. -
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"From each according to his ability,
to each according to his need."
into
"From each according to their assets,
to each according to their greed."
Of course, this was in our godless commie Warez swappin' Hotline-usin' phase...
In the long run, it's OK. There are 90% leeches. But the 10% who make up the providers is not always the same 10% of the people. Today's leech is tomorrow's provider, and vice versa. Sometimes.
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The specific heat of liquid nitrogen is pretty low. So it's not that dangerous in the event of an accident, although if you were completely bathed in it, it would kinda suck. I guess it's a matter of quantity...
But back in the physics department, we used to shoot each other with liquid nitrogen from squirt guns. Yow! That gets your attention.
Then there was Frank, who would actually swallow a few drops, and belch long musical selections.
As for transporting it, a thermos dewar is your best bet. Make it out of stainless steel, so you don't have shattering glass in an accident. I'm not sure how much you'll need to have in your tank to fuel the car though, so it may get big, bulky, and heavy. -
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What is the theoretical limit of the enforcement of the "no linking to the source" part of the case?
If I break a link into two pieces, with a description of how to put it back together, is that still a link? How about four pieces? Or eight?
If there's a widespread understanding that every tenth letter of one of my posts to Slashdot combine to form a URL (they don't, but I suppose they could if I worked at it), would that also be illegal under this judgement?
Obviously, we could obfuscate the link to an arbitrary degree. Does this really come down to making it illegal for me to express (in any way) a method of finding the source code?
It sure seems to me that that's a violation of my rights to free speech... regardless, it's problematic!
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This is probably a pre-emptive action based on the assumption that the company will be split by the justice department. It won't particularly hurt the OS company, but will definitely help the Apps company.
The Applications company will want to have access to *all* markets. They see the writing on the wall with all the new and improved desktop initiatives in the Unix world, and figure that there is going to be some erosion of market share for the Windows desktop.
They probably are also trageting us geeks who have to do a lot of document shuffling for work. We'll be able to have our cake, and read Word documents too. They figure IS managers will say "Hey, it's guaranteed to be compatible, since it's Office."
Still, it'll be hard to compete with free. Star Office is pretty good!
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Yeah, my exceptionally slow compressor counts the number of "one" bits and the number of "zero" bits. It stores those two numbers, along with several position-dependent checksums. Compression is very fast.
;)
Decompression can take roughly the lifetime of the universe (for large files).
Interestingly, my brilliant strategy is also a encryption algorithm
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I guess I know where you're posting from... but you can't say the same for all of us ;)
I think that if there were actually a free market (and, even in the good ol' US of A, there ain't nothin' of the sort), we'd see the market correct itself. Unfortunately, as we've seen with companies like Network Solutions, the transition of Government-funded organizations into corporations yields the worst of both worlds: monopolistic bureaucracies with horrible customer service.
Unlike Network Solutions, though, you'll find that the security industry won't be a monopoly. The alternatives will step up to fill the void, and CERT will find itself without subscribers. In fact, this has already begun with professional security firms like securityfocus.com who use public resources like BugTraq to provide high-speed responses.
(I am not affiliated with any of the named companies except as a service consumer)
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True. Even for government classified information.
Back in the day, if you needed to take some classified document home to work on it (which was pretty much impossible to do), you'd just have to go to the newsstand and buy a copy of Aviation Weekly (which everyone called aviation leakly). They'd have classified stuff in there all the time.
To get back on subject, companies tend to use the words "proprietary," "secret," and "intellectual property" in non-compete documents much as Microsoft uses the words "innovate" and "enterprise." It's when they're desperate, but don't know how to stop the pain.
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Don't neglect the social aspects of the arcade. People don't only go to the place for the games. It's a community thing as well.
Of course, if the games suck and are really expensive, well, then, that will adversely affect the community.
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I've done some of these things. The house is quite insulated. I have no air-conditioning, since I'm close enough to the ocean that it doesn't get above 85 degrees (F) very often. I almost never use the dishwasher, although, in fact, it may be more efficient than washing by hand.
I have a Neptune washer. Dryer and Hot Water heater are natural-gas powered.
Some things I could do: I could probably upgrade the refrigerator to a more energy-efficient version. I could scrap the web hosting that I do for non-profits. I could get rid of the security system.
There are some power-related things that I can't avoid: my girlfriend has severe asthma, so we have to run air filters for her health.
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(and, on the other hand, Gasoline and Coal generators have no such cross-over point.)
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What you're leaving out is that throughout the early 90s, the California Power companies went on an outrageous binge of buying up power suppliers and other companies ... OUTSIDE of California (primarily Central/South America). Now we consumers get to finance their purchases, without having had an opportunity to prevent the errors in the first place.
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Why yes, yes I have.
Of course, it is a server/service collection, that talks HTML over HTTP to a web browser for the GUI. I find the only Java stuff that really is hard to make work cross-platform is the GUI.
(I guess it would be gratuitous to point out that I used to say the same thing seven years ago about C. But in those days, I was exaggerating somewhat. It's probably closer to true today.)
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In the particular agency in question, I suspect that you'd have a hard time getting anything via FOIA. Although, admittedly, they're a lot less restrictive today, and they do release some code to the community.
For a fascinating view of how the FOIA can be subverted (if you're not willing to spend millions of dollars), check out the book "Gimme Some Truth: the John Lennon FBI Files" by John Wiener (or check out the web support site at http://www.lennonfbifiles.com/).
A lot of code gets classified, not because it has anything secret in it, but because they don't want to share it (also, the more classified documents you generate, the less likely you are to get fired, but that's another story). Also, a lot of fairly mundane code gets classified because it could lead you to ideas that might suggest to you something that *is* classified.
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First, I want to say that I've been using Nedit for probably seven years, and I've always thought it was the best thing out there. Someone mentioned that it eased the transition from PC/Mac to Unix, and that was certainly true for me. So thanks for your great work!
When I first used Nedit, I was working for a government-related agency, which had restrictions on what kinds of software could be run. Because Mark Edel hosted the source on a Fermi Labs machine, I was able to weasel around some of those restrictions. This, of course, was not before GNU but was well before the Open Source movement gained its groundswell of popularity. When the movement did gain popular momentum, it was looked upon with distrust and suspicion within the agency where I worked. There were offhand references to Communism and anarchy whenever people heard my enthusiasm. Likewise, when I wanted to give out source to some utilities I wrote, I was summarily shot down and chastised -- "this was paid for by the Government!" I was told (which was exactly my point; they just had a different conclusion as to what that meant).
So... how did you convince Fermi Labs (or the DOE) to allow source distribution in the first place? Did you run into any difficulties when you decided to change the license? Did you have to get permission within the organization? If so, what did you need to do to get approval?
Thanks again!
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As a personal policy, I don't accept gifts for the holidays. I have enough stuff. Here are a few suggestions for people who wanna give me something. If you're interested, email me for a bunch of other worthy organizations!
Donation to ORT (http://www.ort.org/ort/wou/wou.htm). ORT is a Jewish organization that builds vocational schools around the world. Instead of giving people food or money, ORT teaches people high-tech skills like writing code, repairing computers, and other jobs that'll allow them to bring themselves out of poverty.
Donation to MDRC (http://www.mdrc.org). The MDRC is an organization that researches the best ways of improving the lives of low-income people, ranging from literacy programs to vocational training. (More US-centric than ORT).
Donation to EFF (http://www.eff.org). The Electronic Frontier Foundation is one of the few political organizations that understands high-tech issues, and lobbies for, litigates for, and generally supports electronic freedom (via U.S. legal system).
Donation to Amnesty International (http://www.amnesty.org). In some places, organizations like the EFF are not sufficient; you say the wrong thing, you're thrown in jail. Amnesty tries to pressure governments to follow the Geneva Convention and respect human rights.
Donation to PeaceFire (http://www.peacefire.org). An organization that fights censorship of the web, and points out the incompetence and hypocrisy of the would-be censors.
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Actually, it was Jefferson who *wrote* the Declaration of Independence. Hancock just signed it the most flamboyantly.
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Yuck!
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Nice in concept.
Have you actually read the source? Understood it? All of it?
I personally don't have the time to read through each new version of, say, glibc, to find that it's clean. Now, I happen to believe that it's fine, but that's a faith-based opinion, not a knowledge-based one. And it only takes a few lines of source buried deep in some function to open up a back door.
In any case, you've got a better shot at finding backdoors with Open Source, but it's not like a back door'll jump out at you and wave, just because it's in an Open Source program.
Eternal vigilance, etc...
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It's dangerous to label an agency that, collectively, has done stupid things as being stupid. There are some very intelligent people who work for the FBI (or just about any other organzation).
If you're trying to protect information, you should never make the mistake of assuming you're trying to hide it from an idiot.
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Frankly, I was quite underwhelmed with the suggestions. They all basically add up to cheap, low-tech encryption or security by obscurity methods.
Some were flat-out wrong. Going through an email proxy doesn't help if they're sniffing your connection by IP address. I'm not convinced that Carnovore doesn't do this (nor am I convinced that it does. But I wouldn't base my security strategy on the weaker assumption). Likewise, forging an email address is not going to trick the system. The FBI isn't stupid.
Obviously, strong encryption is the best solution. Although there is a precedent for having passwords *not* protected as free speech under the 5th amendment, it does give you your best shot at keeping communications secure.
Steganography's also probably a reasonable choice. Get a good digital camera, and send out a lot of pictures to your friends. Some may have messages. Most don't.
Chaffing models might be good, but might not.
Also, techniques like the old "saturate Echelon" approach, where you *always* tag on keywords like semtex, Nidal, West Bank, UN, ammo, NSA, NRO, ZOG, etc. to your messages. If everyone did it, and varied the list, it'd clog their system eventually...
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Heck, ten years ago we were using GCC when I worked at a DoD/government facility.
So GNU usage is nothing new.
Linux, on the other hand, didn't really exist for us at that point.
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To handle dependencies.
If you update something and it loads you a new version of sopme shared library, it could hose other packages. And that *really* sucks.
By living on "unstable" releases, you can experience this first hand. And for some reason, it only happens the day before you really need to get some code written...
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Take it from someone who drives a mighty schnazzy vehicle -- the kinds of chicks who swarm you aren't the kinds of chicks you want to date. They're turning you into a symbol of *money*, and that's what they're looking for.
...
And, for you women out there, when my girlfriend drives it, she says it's the skeeziest of guys who give her the most attention
People make the assumption that if you drive a fast convertible, you're just itching to give money and cocaine and diamonds in exchange for sex. Or maybe that's just here in Los Angeles.
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Guilty as charged.
It's just that when I was a godless commie Warez swappin' Hotline-usin' no-good SOB, I was also a otherly-grammared, politically correct phraseologist.
Now that I'm a godless Corporatist profiteering flak, I am once again a grammar pedant. I use apostrophes correctly (even with the word "its" versus "it's"), I attempt to preserve voice whenever possible, and I never say "quote" when I mean "quotation."
Grammar is just another natural transition engendered by such a political shift; others are exemplified by driving a Porsche Boxster instead of a '69 Volvo Stationwagon, dating a woman named Elizabeth instead of one named Sunshine, and drinking dry martinis instead of Ernest & Julio jug wine.
OK. I admit it. Even with all those changes, I'm still a godless commie Warez swappin' Hotline-usin' no-good SOB. So sue me.
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We used to paraphrase Marx's
"From each according to his ability,
to each according to his need."
into
"From each according to their assets,
to each according to their greed."
Of course, this was in our godless commie Warez swappin' Hotline-usin' phase...
In the long run, it's OK. There are 90% leeches. But the 10% who make up the providers is not always the same 10% of the people. Today's leech is tomorrow's provider, and vice versa. Sometimes.
It all tends to work out eventually.
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The specific heat of liquid nitrogen is pretty low. So it's not that dangerous in the event of an accident, although if you were completely bathed in it, it would kinda suck. I guess it's a matter of quantity...
But back in the physics department, we used to shoot each other with liquid nitrogen from squirt guns. Yow! That gets your attention.
Then there was Frank, who would actually swallow a few drops, and belch long musical selections.
As for transporting it, a thermos dewar is your best bet. Make it out of stainless steel, so you don't have shattering glass in an accident. I'm not sure how much you'll need to have in your tank to fuel the car though, so it may get big, bulky, and heavy.
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... to the term "Vacuum cleaner."
But seriously, this has been just one of many proposals for clearing space junk. There's foam shields, thermal reflectors, lasers, armor, reactive panels, and, my favorite, luck.
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What is the theoretical limit of the enforcement of the "no linking to the source" part of the case?
If I break a link into two pieces, with a description of how to put it back together, is that still a link? How about four pieces? Or eight?
If there's a widespread understanding that every tenth letter of one of my posts to Slashdot combine to form a URL (they don't, but I suppose they could if I worked at it), would that also be illegal under this judgement?
Obviously, we could obfuscate the link to an arbitrary degree. Does this really come down to making it illegal for me to express (in any way) a method of finding the source code?
It sure seems to me that that's a violation of my rights to free speech... regardless, it's problematic!
I suppose these same questions apply to the source code itself.
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This is probably a pre-emptive action based on the assumption that the company will be split by the justice department. It won't particularly hurt the OS company, but will definitely help the Apps company.
The Applications company will want to have access to *all* markets. They see the writing on the wall with all the new and improved desktop initiatives in the Unix world, and figure that there is going to be some erosion of market share for the Windows desktop.
They probably are also trageting us geeks who have to do a lot of document shuffling for work. We'll be able to have our cake, and read Word documents too. They figure IS managers will say "Hey, it's guaranteed to be compatible, since it's Office."
Still, it'll be hard to compete with free. Star Office is pretty good!
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