From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Aug 16 04:57:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA20539 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 04:57:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from logic.it (mod4.logic.it [195.120.151.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id EAA20534 for ; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 04:57:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 1382 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Aug 1997 11:55:58 -0000 Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 13:55:57 +0200 (MET DST) From: Marco Molteni X-Sender: molter@dumbwinter.ecomotor.it To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: About the Apple-Microsoft Deal Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Quoting from the cover page of TIME, 18 August 1997: "Bill, thank you. The world's a better place" - Steve Jobs talking to Bill Gates by cell phone last week about saving Apple. My god. I don't know if I should laugh or if I should cry. My "stream of consciousness" :-) about it: - George Orwell's 1984. How long do we have to wait? 2004 ? - Phil Zimmermann's PGP. Thanks Phil for your battle. I'm afraid we will need it. Yes, I know, european countries (I'm from Italy) are inventing things as dumb (or should I use another adjective?) as the US Clipper. Hmmm, maybe I just had a nightmare. I hope I'll wake up soon in a sunny world where the only Big Brother is the network utility (http://www.iti.qc.ca/iti/users/sean/) ;-) Marco Molteni Computer Science student at the Universita' di Milano, Italy. "This snakeskin jacket symbolizes my individuality and belief in personal freedom".