What a surprising headline.

Post #21,318 by wharris2 12/13/01 10:14:38 AM Reply	What a surprising headline. Company favors acceptance of proposal accepted by U.S. Department of Justice DUUUUUUH! Of course they like this settlement. From our old friends at [link\|http://www.infoworld.com/articles/ms/xml/01/12/12/011212msforce.xml\|Infoworld]. "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth
Post #21,326 by mmoffitt 12/13/01 11:05:27 AM Reply	Seems the LBO of the Bush Admin is complete.
Post #21,338 by hnick 12/13/01 11:51:58 AM Reply	LBO ?
Post #21,351 by Yendor 12/13/01 1:04:38 PM Reply	Leveraged buyout A popular business term as regards taking over companies, used esp. in the mid-to-late 80's. See definition at [link\|http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=leveraged+buyout\|Everything2]. -YendorMike "The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by the skeptics or the cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need people who dream of things that never were." - John F. Kennedy
Post #21,335 by wharris2 12/13/01 11:46:09 AM Reply	As always, the Register is pithy One does kind of wonder what use Microsoft's source code, software blueprints and APIs would be anyway, given that what appears to happen is that the coders shove stuff in, then forget precisely where they put it, so can't figure out how to get it back out without breaking stuff. But we knew that about Microsoft development already. There's plenty more in their [link\|http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23380.html\|article]. "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth
Post #21,343 by Steven A S 12/13/01 12:00:26 PM Reply	Re: What a surprising headline. Hmm... I thought the new proposal was primarily targetted at setting provisions that would only come into play if Microsoft failed to comply with the other actions. If that's true, Microsoft would only have to be concerned if they planned on disobeying or pushing the edge of the rulings. <sarcasm>They wouldn't plan on doing that would they?</sarcasm> On a side note, when did Palm become one of the "mean bullies trying to destroy american innovation"? ~~~)-Steven---- "I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country..." General George S. Patton
Post #21,360 by tonytib 12/13/01 1:40:30 PM Reply	Of course Palm is trying to destroy American innovation... because they dare to compete with WinCE! Tony

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