[NOISE] Re: 800_ape

Rich Graves llurch at networking.stanford.edu
Sat Nov 4 10:07:32 PST 1995


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






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