Eric S. Raymond on Fri, 1 Jan 1999 15:16:14 -0500 (EST) |
LeRoy D. Cressy <ldc@netaxs.com>: > Happy New Year, > > As most of you know I m involved with Linux, and my friend Eric Raymond > has written a New Years Spoof based on a leaked internal document from > our good friends in Redmond, WA. Have a lot of fun reading it: > > http://www.opensource.org/halloween4.html Oops. Correction. "Halloween IV: When Software Things Were Rotten" is not in fact based on leaked Microsoft material. It just takes off on a comment by Ed Muth, Vinod Vallopillil's boss. Someday those poor fools at Microsoft will learn that it's just not wise to hand me straight lines... -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a> The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this. -- Albert Einstein, "My First Impression of the U.S.A.", 1921 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with the word 'unsubscribe' in the subject or body of your message to plug-request@lists.nothinbut.net
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