Linonut wrote:
> * Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:
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>> Tim Bray: Life Is Complicated
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>>| Those with long memories might suggest a parallel between Rick?s position and
>>| mine when in 1997, I was sitting on the XML Working Group and co-editing the
>>| spec, on a pro bono basis as an indie consultant. Netscape hired me to
>>| represent their interests, and when I announced this, controversy ensued.
>>| Which is a nice way of saying that Microsoft went berserk; tried
>>| unsuccessfully to get me fired as co-editor, and then launched a vicious,
>>| deeply personal extended attack in which they tried to destroy my career and
>>| took lethal action against a small struggling company because my wife worked
>>| there. It was a sideshow of a sideshow of the great campaign to bury Netscape
>>| and I?m sure the executives have forgotten; but I haven?t.
>> `----
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>> http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/01/24/Mixup
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> <name="jim allchin" voice="gravelly">
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> Iss juss business, son.
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> <gunshot/>
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> </name>
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> Uh, no they don't, Bill:
M$ is some evil bastards, ain't they?
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