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Re: Financial identity is *dangerous*? (was re: Fake companies, real money)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Mon Oct 25 16:30:16 2004

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From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: dan@geer.org, hal@finney.org
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com, jamesd@echeque.com
In-Reply-To: <20041022162751.7084D1BF96B@absinthe.tinho.net>
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 15:13:38 +1300

dan@geer.org writes:

>I'm pretty sure that you are answering the question "Why did Microsoft buy
>Connectix?"

The answer to that one is actually "To provide a development environment for
Windows CE (and later XP Embedded)" (the emulator that's used for development
in those environments is VirtualPC).  Thank you for playing.

Peter.


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