And in other news, the US Gummint investigates the upcoming Windows 7 operating system, to see that it meets the terms of the 2003 "Final Judgements"...
US antitrust regulators examine Windows 7 (http://url.ie/gwy) Chilling words from the article for anyone who writes code (or manages people who do so) for a living: "This is designed to ensure that "bugs fixed in Vista do not reappear in the next operating system", according to a Department of Justice statement... I sure wouldn't want government regulators snooping around in code that I or my coworkers write to ensure that bugs fixed in one version don't reappear in the next version. If they did, I'd be writing this on the library computer at Leavenworth, I suppose. Dave Disclaimer: This email contains uncorroborated and unreliable statements about the quality of software at a certain Internet company that should not be construed to represent the actual quality of said software from said company and which do in no way represent the official position of said company with respect to the quality of said software. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
