[LUNI] Ballmer repeats threats against Linux

[Mike Scott]

Yes, Ray Noorda.

Checksums, who needs those?
Simpler times... :-)

- Mike Scott


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: [LUNI] Ballmer repeats threats against Linux
> From: "Kenneth P. Stox" <ken at stox.org>
> Date: Thu, February 22, 2007 6:41 pm
> To: Linux Users Of Northern Illinois - Technical Discussion
> <luni at luni.org>
> 
> On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 17:03 -0700, Mike Scott wrote:
> > First Microsoft hid behind SCO and took them down, now they're trying to
> > get Novell to be their proxy.
> > I will never purchase another Novell product again.
> > You would have thought the learned when NT killed NetWare, but probably
> > a whole new batch of MBAs (Maggot-Brained A$$H0135) are running (or
> > ruining) the show now.
> > Too bad, I liked SuSE.  Hopefully Open SuSE will live on after M$
> > destroys Novell.
> 
> Do you know that the founder of Novell was the founder of Caldera?
> 
> BTW, I never had any respect for Novell. They pulled ahead of the
> competition, early on, because they were much faster. How did they do
> this? Simple, don't bother to actually check the checksum in your
> packets. And to think that Banks, and the like, were actually using
> this.
> 
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