New Micro$oft trial

[Chuck Young]

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
> 
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