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

[John J. Urbaniak]

In the article, Ballmer says:

 "This includes, but is not limited to, foo and bar and blee and blah..."

He's a blithering idiot.

John


Roy Bixler wrote:

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