Re: The Microsoft issue

Gregory Alan Bolcer (gbolcer@gambetta.ICS.uci.edu)
Mon, 22 Dec 1997 20:06:18 -0800


> So this is my point. Ms has a lot of enemy's. It seems to me their defense
> is bad. Their admitting that they built Win95/NT to crash without Exploder.

Every application built on top of Windows is a 3 million+ line program.

> It shouldn't be to hard to get McNealy/McCraken to say their lying. Also,
> don't these guys understand who their fucking with? Mike Milliken broke no
> existing laws. None, the laws he went to jail for were implemented after he
> had been doing his thing for a number of years. All he did was find a hole
> in the system and go for it.

The judge even figured out how to uninstall it, first try,
in front of the Microsoft execs, and under 90 seconds. Bad
things in store for them. That's the thing about them judicial
folk. The computer industry lies all the time; we just call
it vaporware.

http://www.sjmercury.com/business/microsoft/docs/test122097.htm

Greg