Sympatico goes MSN

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Hi David,

I also saw the new 'msn.sympatico.ca' thing in the paper and wondered.

However, I'm not really concerned yet. I have two Linux machines and three
or four Windows machines happily networked together working through a
router/firewall talking to Sympatico. That's all allowed under the EULA or
whatever they're calling the Sympatico customer service agreement these
days.

My Linux machines are workstations -- I'm not running web servers that the
outside world can access, nor am I running my own mail server. I may use
Epiphany, Mozilla or Galeon to access the web instead of IE, and I may
use Evolution and PMMail2000 instead of Outlook, but how is Microsoft
going to find out -- or be able to do anything about that?

So, I don't anticipate any problems. It's not a big deal.

Alex

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, David J Patrick wrote:

>     Did you notice that Sympatico has gone over to the dark side ?
>     Acquired ? Partnered ? Assimilated ?
>     Anyhoo, it's just a matter of time now before the "No Penguins" sign
> goes up. I spoke with customer service and they admitted that the last
> week has been pretty hectic, with the transition, and the bugs were not
> yet worked out. "Not yet worked in" I quipped, he didn't get it. When I
> told him that this new MSN thing would probably result in my move to
> another ISP, he was at first confused, but then (after connecting the
> dots between MSN and M$) admitted that it was likely to become an issue.
> I explained that Sympatico had been a technically functioning, if
> unsupported, linuxable ISP for years, and was now destined to becoming
> actively linux hostile. He agreed that it was a likely outcome.
>     So there ya have it kids, the last straw.
> Istop anyone ?
> djp
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