Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 23:55:03 -0500 (CDT) From: inghaw <ihc@winternet.com> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About the Apple-Microsoft Deal Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970816235209.19069A-100000@parka.winternet.com> In-Reply-To: <19970817134903.20400@lemis.com>
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my demented scoop: maybe this has been said, i haven't been keeping up on this one, but i bet gates kept apple alive as his excuse to antitrust suits. "see? there's competition for ya..." and plus, as one of the largest shareholders now, he'll make money whenever the competition does. (: --inghaw On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Sat, Aug 16, 1997 at 01:55:57PM +0200, Marco Molteni wrote: > > Quoting from the cover page of TIME, 18 August 1997: > > > > "Bill, thank you. The world's a better place" > > - Steve Jobs talking to Bill Gates by cell phone last week about > > saving Apple. > > Well, Jobs was always a good bullshit artist. But it's sad that Time > should carry that message. I think I'll cancel my subscription. > > > Hmmm, maybe I just had a nightmare. I hope I'll wake up soon in a > > sunny world where the only Big Brother is the network utility > > (http://www.iti.qc.ca/iti/users/sean/) ;-) > > Too late. They've nuked the site: > > === grog@freebie (/dev/ttyp8) ~/Mail 54 -> ping www.iti.qc.ca > PING inet-gw-0.EY.CA (132.220.23.1): 56 data bytes > 36 bytes from sobeco-gw.montreal.uunet.ca (142.77.11.254): Destination Host Unreachable > Vr HL TOS Len ID Flg off TTL Pro cks Src Dst > 4 5 00 5400 26cf 0 0000 ee 01 f5f4 139.130.136.133 132.220.23.1 > > Greg >
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