17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Cypherpunks and Extropians: Two articles of interest in today's NYT: 1) [Front Page, lower right] A software vendor allegedly planted a virus in a customer's machine because he threatened to stop payment on the software he bought. The virus was programmed to shutdown the customer's computer. 2) [Front page, bottom, Business section] NeXT and Sun have announced a partnership. Apparently, Sun is to invest 10mil in NeXT for access to the source of their OOP environment. BTW, how much did Sun make last year? How much is 10mil by comparison? Walter A. Kehowski <wak@next0.math.pitt.edu>