[ale] AOL sues Microsoft

Jeff Rose jojerose at mindspring.com
Thu Jan 24 22:06:22 EST 2002


It seems rather difficult to trust a company that doesn't have faith in
their own products.  Oh by the way doesn't Hotmail run on BSD and isn't
Hotmail owned by MS?  Not sure but that is what I've heard anyway

On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 15:30, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 13:07, Matt Shade wrote:
> > About 3 or 4 years ago, someone high up decided that Microsoft was the way
> > to go, and over the course of say a year, moved everyone off our UX
> > workstations onto intel based boxes running NT.
> 
> And HP's been going to crap ever since. This is a great argument on how
> NOT to do things!  When you have a system that works fantanstic and you
> are a respected leader in your field around the world, it makes no good
> sense to gut your infrastructure just because the new kid on the block
> points his finger and whines at you that "you don't the kewl shoes he
> does so you must be a looser". 
> 
> But then again, when you're at the top, there's only one direction you
> can go.
> 
> -- 
> James P. Kinney III   \Changing the mobile computing world/
> President and COO      \          one Linux user         /
> Local Net Solutions,LLC \           at a time.          /
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> 
> GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics)
> <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>
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