From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 20 09:17:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA00240 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 09:17:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.wxs.nl (smtp04.wxs.nl [195.121.6.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA00234 for ; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 09:17:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from chronias.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.57.106]) by smtp04.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA2B48; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 18:17:28 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <36409.914172594@zippy.cdrom.com> Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 18:23:48 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: This just in: Microsoft/Sears Merger Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Brett Glass , Drew Baxter Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 20-Dec-98 Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> This is a classic demonstration of Microsoft yet again buying into a market >> in which they do not belong. SOOO how many users does Microsoft Network >> have? Noone cares, America Online bought out that market ages ago. > > Why is it that nobody seems to have read far enough into Brett's > posting to see that he openly admitted it was a flagrantly bogus > press release and merely satirical? *grinning sheepishly* Weren't we discussing hypothetical situations regarding MS FUD's techniques and acquirements then? (Was that convincing enough? =) --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Life is the only Pain asmodai(at)wxs.nl we endeavour... Network/Security Specialist BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message