From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Aug 7 18:40:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA13817 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 18:40:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nico.telstra.net (nico.telstra.net [139.130.204.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA13774 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 18:39:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by nico.telstra.net (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id LAA10969; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 11:39:24 +1000 From: Greg Lehey Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id LAA19618; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 11:09:23 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199708080139.LAA19618@freebie.lemis.com> Subject: Re: Status of USB, TX chipset, PIIX3, etc. In-Reply-To: from Tim Vanderhoek at "Aug 7, 97 09:38:05 pm" To: hoek@hwcn.org Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 11:09:23 +0930 (CST) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Chat) Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Tim Vanderhoek writes: > On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> Isn't it comforting to see that even Big Blue wasn't able to continue >> ruling the world? > > Maybe. If Microsoft was what followed IBM, then I shudder to > think of what will follow Microsoft. Hmmm. I don't know. IBM was pretty hated in their day. But I understand your concern :-) > Anyways... Even the popular press seems to be going after MS, > now... On the Apple-MS announcement, today's paper went on to > list previous companies that were squished after making dealing > with MS. See? The worm is turning. Greg