RE: Of u$oft, Linux and free computers

Josh Cohen (joshco@microsoft.com)
Mon, 28 Sep 1998 13:55:19 -0700


great.
So we improve the security and fix a longstanding
complaint about the way we do SMB authentication
and we get beaten up for "deliberately sabotaging Linux".

hogwash..

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joachim Feise [mailto:jfeise@XeNT.ics.UCI.edu]
> Sent: Monday, September 28, 1998 9:38 AM
> To: Robert Harley
> Cc: fork@xent.ICS.uci.edu
> Subject: Re: Of u$oft, Linux and free computers
>
>
> He is wrong in one place, though: I searched for the article
> Q166730 on the MS
> support site, and I actually found it at
> http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q166/7/30.asp
> I printed it, since I don't trust M$ to keep it around.
>
> -JoeF
>
> Robert Harley wrote:
> >
> > Good stuff from the Cringe-meister:
> > http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit19980924.html
>
> --
> Joachim Feise Ph.D. Student, Information & Computer Science
> mailto:jfeise@ics.uci.edu http://www.ics.uci.edu/~jfeise/
> mailto:jfeise@acm.org mailto:jfeise@ecs.com
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> Lest you think that "open" computing can't possibly win, just look
> back at the primal lesson of desktop computing of the '80s: Open up
> your architecture to all comers and win -- or keep it closed, like
> the Macintosh, and lose.
>