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Wouter Verhelst about What's the Purpose Here?

Fri, 09.07.2010 17:45

I got one of those too, and go t interested. Turns out tha t they actually meant what the y wrote: they did send a [...]

vvill about What's the Purpose Here?

Thu, 08.07.2010 15:17

I doubt it's just being silly or funny or cute... I get my s hare of phishing emails of all sorts, and I'll bet it [...]

Andrew Latham about What's the Purpose Here?

Thu, 08.07.2010 14:41

They are attempting to "untrai n" any anti-spam system you ha ve. The goal is to poision th e words list. This is o [...]

Simon about Extensible Database Backends

Thu, 24.06.2010 23:53

Note that extensions are loade d in the connection subprocess , that is, an unstable module will not pull the entire [...]

Wil van lierop about Extensible Database Backends

Thu, 24.06.2010 19:54

A definite *yes*. or at least a clear way of making that dis tinction in marking them. A s with all popular scrip [...]

Friday, January 15. 2010

Maybe we could define the [ACPI] APIs so that they work well with NT and not the others even if they are open.
Or maybe we could patent something related to this.

Bill Gates, 1999, “the others” is Linux (Bill says so explicitly in this email, too.) Obviously, we find similar anti-Windows rethoric en masse on Linux mailing list, and obviously it's been a few years since — but I find myself asking if anything really changed in the top level of MS management, except perhaps that a few people realized that trying to make the Linux / FOSS crowd look like a ridiculous bunch of amateurs wouldn't work.

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Recent evidence points to "no." Just look at the Vista and 7 break in DirectX, and the attempt to kill off OpenGL support (which served only to piss off AutoDesk, id Software and Linden Research customers).

#1 Paul Johnson on 2010-01-15 22:37 (Reply)

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