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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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