Microsoft ad looks like "news"

[Peter L. Peres]

On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Taavi Burns wrote:

> What other insidious and dirty tricks are they up to, I wonder?

Well, it' an election year in that country. Mudslinging seems to be ok. As
to the future, the road ahead (Bill's book) is a must read. He believes in
free for all capitalism (Adam Smith style - the kind that led to Black
Friday), says that they trusted him in school to do the roster using a
computer and he 'added a few lines of code' to put himself in a class with
mostly girls, and then tells how he would not study in college until the
last week before the exams 'trying to see how far this can be pushed', and
then jump on it and study like crazy for a week, to take the exam. His
buddy on this was Steve Ballmer (that's where they met). It also says that
they were 'afraid someone else would write code before them (Paul&Bill)
and dominate the market' for the Altair computer (8080 based). What do you
expect from a pattern like this ? 'World Domination' was a goal since he
was not yet in college.

As to the download bandwidth used by those users, so far the only things I
had to download were applications that were not part of the Linux distros
I used (which came with 2000+ applications themselves). Maybe they had a
sysadmin who used apt-get over the net instead of updating a local machine
to a local server.

Peter
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