Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 21:02:19 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, allenc@verinet.com (Allen Campbell) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: This is stupid Message-ID: <v04220819b4f83f4f1841@[195.238.1.121]> In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000317123145.00b601f0@localhost> References: <4.2.2.20000317103557.00b32ef0@localhost> <4.2.2.20000317092004.040fc560@localhost> <38D1F624.2C97055A@verinet.com> <4.2.2.20000317092004.040fc560@localhost> <4.2.2.20000317103557.00b32ef0@localhost> <4.2.2.20000317123145.00b601f0@localhost>
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At 12:33 PM -0700 2000/3/17, Brett Glass wrote: > No, they're a standard SCAM in the business world. Even Microsoft has dropped > the pretense that there is, as they once claimed, a "Chinese wall" between > application development and OS development. You haven't been listening, have you? Perhaps some businesses don't implement them correctly, but plenty do. It all depends on the company, the nature of the contracts that are signed requiring the Chinese walls, etc.... To use Microsoft as a counter-example that they never work in any situation is an exceptionally poor choice of strawman. You can do better than that! -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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