The latest attempt at a Microsoft car
William O'Higgins Witteman
william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Thu Mar 2 21:21:08 UTC 2006
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:09:41PM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
>
>Evan> Why am I not surprised that their partner is Fiat? And why is the
>Evan> project called "blew me"?
>
>Is Fiat known for obnoxious anti-competitive practices?
Not so much anti-competitive, as amusing in light of their name.
# dict fiat
8 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Fiat \Fi"at\, n. [L., let it be done, 3d pers. sing., subj.
pres., fr. fieri, used as pass. of facere to make. Cf. {Be}.]
1. An authoritative command or order to do something; an
effectual decree.
[1913 Webster]
His fiat laid the corner stone. --Willis.
[1913 Webster]
--snip--
Essentially, to have something obeyed on your say-so is to have made a
decree by fiat. Not that this is in any way related to M$ behaviour, oh
no...
--
yours,
William
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