> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert S. Thau [mailto:rst@ai.mit.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 1998 6:10 AM
> To: Thomas Reardon
> Cc: 'L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk'; FoRK@xent.ics.uci.edu
> Subject: RE: Why you want to work for Microsoft (research)
>
>
> Thomas Reardon writes:
> > wondering if the Microsoft policy is simply to hire every
> functional
> > mind on the planet to create a monopoly of thought.
> >
> > TR> no, we already have that. Now we are merely
> backfilling to create the
> > *appearance* of a monopoly of thought. All candidates are
> chosen primarily
> > for the grapevine value that attends their transition into
> the Borg.
>
> I am eagerly awaiting the results of your assimilation of Richard
> M. Stallman...
>
> TORVALDS
>
> What is the status of the new weapon?
>
> RAYMOND
>
> At 42% of expected power. We are now capable of
> broadcasting shotgun bullets or just about anything
> from a pistol straight onto the backbone, but those
> are all single-shot. We're having more trouble
> than I expected interfacing the M-16s directly to
> fiber, so we can only download ammo from those at
> T-1 data rates. I'm working on...
>
> ZAWINSKI
>
> [interrupting]
>
> There may be no time. The Borg are hailing us.
>
> STALLMAN appears on the viewscreen, transformed. One hand has been
> replaced with a direct data link, and there is a fiber-optic cable
> going into a former eye socket. His body is encrusted with
> mecahnical paraphenalia elsewhere; however, a ripped LPF t-shirt is
> still visible underneath.
>
> STALLMAN
>
> I am Locutus of Windows NT 5.0, and I'd like
> to sing you a little song.
>
> [beat]
>
> [STALLMAN sings, off-key. From within
> the machinery on his person comes the
> sound of a tinny, synthsized pan-flute]
>
> Join Bill now and write for Windows
> You'll have fun hackers, you'll have fun...
>
> TORVALDS
>
> [As STALLMAN, now Locutus, continues
> to sing, and the bridge crew reacts
> in horror]
>
> Mr. Raymond,
>
> [beat]
>
> Fire.
>