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Yeah... George Jr... ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: New Micro$oft trial Author: "Anthony J. Gabrielson" <agabriel at coe.neu.edu> at InterNet Date: 8/19/99 1:15 PM I don't he said he NO to not using for at least 14 yrs well his dad was in office. The media really has problems and need to drop an issue, to date I have met no one who is intrested in. My .02 Anthony On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Chuck Young wrote: > Do I laugh or cry at this one? It's getting hard to define "too > outrageous" these days... > > Is George W. Bush really a dope-smoking lizard-being who has lived since > the days of ancient Egypt on the planet as a resident E.T.? > > Chuck Young > GTE Internetworking > > On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Jerry Feldman wrote: > > > Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 11:43:53 -0400 > > From: Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> > > To: discuss at tarnhelm.blu.org > > Subject: New Micro$oft trial > > > > Microsoft announced that it is selling advertising space in the error > > messages that appear in Windows. Acknowledging for the first time > > that the average user of their operating system encounters error > > messages at least several times a day, Microsoft is trying to take > > financial advantage of the unavoidable opportunity to make an ad > > impression. "We estimate that throughout the world at any given > > moment several million people are getting a 'general protection fault' > > or 'illegal operation' warning. We will be able to generate > > significant revenue by including a short advertising message along > > with it," said Microsoft marketing director Nathan Mirror. > > > > The Justice Department immediately indicated that they intend to > > investigate whether Microsoft is gaining an unfair advantage in > > reaching the public with this advertising by virtue of its > > semi-monopolistic control over error messages. > > > > -- > > Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> > > Boston Linux and Unix > > http://www.blu.org > > > > - > > Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with > > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the > > message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored). > > > > - > Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the > message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored). > - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored). -------------- next part -------------- Received: from ns.learningco.com ([198.112.0.7]) by mail.learningco.com with SMTP (IMA Internet Exchange 3.12) id 00002B69; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 14:04:45 -0400 Received: by ns.learningco.com; id NAA26691; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 13:58:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from tarnhelm.blu.org(207.31.228.20) by ns.learningco.com via smap (V4.2) id xma026554; Thu, 19 Aug 99 13:58:07 -0400 Received: (from majordom at localhost) by tarnhelm.blu.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA02850 for discuss-outgoing; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 13:19:05 -0400 Received: from nueng.coe.neu.edu (Nueng.coe.neu.edu [129.10.34.151]) by tarnhelm.blu.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA02847; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 13:18:56 -0400 Received: from X.coe.neu.edu (X.coe.neu.edu [129.10.33.123]) by nueng.coe.neu.edu (8.6.9/8.6.11) with ESMTP id NAA12040; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 13:15:20 -0400 Received: from localhost by X.coe.neu.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA28176; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 13:15:33 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: X.coe.neu.edu: agabriel owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 13:15:32 -0400 (EDT) From: "Anthony J. Gabrielson" <agabriel at coe.neu.edu> To: Chuck Young <cyoung at bbnplanet.com> cc: Jerry Feldman <gaf at Blu.Org>, discuss at tarnhelm.blu.org Subject: Re: New Micro$oft trial In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.95.990819164741.3323E-100000 at taildragger.sys.gtei.net> Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.4.10.9908191314060.29947-100000 at X.coe.neu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-discuss at blu.org Precedence: bulk
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