Re: Hatch wants Gates back

[Mitch Stone <mstone@vc.net>]

--- From a message sent by Doug Masson on 7/20/98 9:26 AM ---

>Don't forget the WIPO copyright travesty! (Though if the Y2K problem is
>1/2 as serious as some suggest, the rest of this stuff is just so much
>bread and circus.) But, thank goodness none of these issues is getting as
>much time as the Monica Lewinsky melodrama because THAT is certainly head
>and shoulders above Microsoft, WIPO, filtering, and Y2K combined based
>upon the coverage.

Exactly. But just so we know: Microsoft considers Y2K to be not so much a 
"problem" as an "opportunity" (just as in Microspeak, bugs are "issues"). 
Another example of "we screwed up, you pay" logic.

   Mitch Stone
   Editor, Boycott Microsoft
   http://www.vcnet.com/bms 
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