17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On Sat, 4 Nov 1995, John Young wrote:
11-5-95. NYPaper Sunday Magazine:
"Making Microsoft Safe For Capitalism. How do you restrain an 800-pound gorilla?" Cover story. By James Gleick.
'Anything not a direct lie or clearly illegal is O.K. to do if it advances Microsoft's tribal cause,' Mitchell Kapor says. 'This licenses the worst sort of manipulations, lies, tortured self-justification and so on.'
Mitch is incorrect. Microsoft considers direct lies to be OK. Witness the handling of the SMB security bugs. I'm putting together a "Windows 95 Frequently Unanswered Questions File." -rich