On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 18:31 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 21 February 2007, alan wrote: > >On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Tom Horsley wrote: > >> On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:41:15 -0500 > >> > >> taharka <res00vl8@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> Microsoft is to form a partnership with Red Hat to improve the > >>> interoperability of Windows and Linux, according to Tom Robertson, > >>> Microsoft's general manager of interoperability and standards. > >> > >> But the only interoperability problems are always caused by > >> Microsoft refusing to actually obey existing RFCs. What's the > >> partnership going to do? Break redhat the same way microsoft > >> is already broken? > > > >I suspect it is an attempt to trick them into violating some hidden IP > >landmine. > > > >I don't truct Micorsoft as far as I can throw Balmer. > > > With, or without his chair? The chair might be an advantage as it would > offer a firmer grip... And you wouldn't need to touch "Jabba the Hutt" Balmer. The amount of slime oozed by any Microsoft executive automatically requires a full hazmat suit to get within 100 meters of them, and that will restrict your throwing motion. > > >-- > >"Invoking the supernatural can explain anything, and hence explains > > nothing." - University of Utah bioengineering professor Gregory Clark > > > > -- > Cheers, Gene > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above > message by Gene Heskett are: > Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - To iterate is human, to recurse, divine. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------