>From Mohammad A. Haque on Thursday, 08 March, 2001: [snip] >Also notice that you're now paying MS so you can find their bugs. Very >nice. Indeed. They've been very successful so far in getting people to pony up (pay) for beta software (see W2K: The Beta, Whistler/XP: The Beta, and (I am pretty sure) VisualStudio.Net: The Beta.) Interesting concept. Quite an evil marketing scheme, if you ask me. The users pay to help Microsoft debug their software, and also pay to put their security (both in the cracking and data safety senses) on the line. Huzzah! Microsoft has proven it: we're sheep! Baaa baa baa baaa, Joseph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I felt a great disturbance in the force. As if a significant plot line suddenly cried out in terror... and was suddenly silenced." -Torg in "Sluggy Freelance" www.sluggy.com. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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