[Am-info] Chicago Tribune: Ballmer: Proposal would 'debilitate' Microsoft

[Roy Bixler]

Ballmer gives his usual hyperbolic viewpoints here, claiming that
"Jackson was overturned" and that the DOJ-brokered settlement terms
went beyond what the Appeals Court ruled.  Do any of the more legal
types on this list have comments on this?

I found his quote:

"We want the Space Shuttle designed so that any part can be taken out,
and it'll still fly, and it'll fly right. Oh, and any part should be
able to be replaced. See that screw? That screw has got to be able to
be arbitrarily replaced. And no astronaut has to be in any jeopardy."

particularly amusing.  Picking nits, I guess he actually means "... any
part can either be removed or replaced with a part compliant to
specifications and it'll still fly ..."  For instance, is the ability to
replace the Windows filesystem with something like, say, Reiserfs,
ridiculous?  Apparently he thinks so.  What he ridicules is what I
always considered as a sign of a flexible, well designed system.

Ballmer: Proposal would 'debilitate' Microsoft
http://chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-020213ballmer.story?coll=chi%2Dbusiness%2Dhed 

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Roy Bixler <rcb@bix.org>
A waist is a terrible thing to mind.
                -- Ziggy