[42854] in Cypherpunks
[NOISE] Re: 800_ape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Graves)
Sat Nov 4 13:04:10 1995
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 10:00:05 -0800 (PST)
From: Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199511041323.IAA16916@pipe1.nyc.pipeline.com>
Apparently-To: <cypherpunks@toad.com>
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
