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Re: [News] Linux Has A Birthday

After takin' a swig o' grog, Homer belched out
  this bit o' wisdom:

> [quote]
> In the documents issued by the government to bolster its case against
> Microsoft, some PC manufacturers said they had been threatened that they
> would not be able to bundle Windows 95 with their products if they tried
> to install it without Internet Explorer.

Bundle the browser!

> Microsoft also tried to bind the manufacturers with secrecy clauses.
> Nothing sinister in that, says Microsoft's lawyer William Neukom.
> [/quote]

Apt name for that lawyer.

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/30265.stm
>
> "cut off [the] air supply"
>
> "embrace, extend, and extinguish"
>
> http://news.cnet.com/Microsoft,-Intel-wage-war-of-words/2100-1023_3-217848.html
>
> "... tilt lotus into the death spiral,"
>
> "pawns."
>
> http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/300590_software22.html
>
> "knife the baby"
>
> http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,11006817,00.htm
>
> "... they should do a delicate dance," 
> ("knife the baby", "cut off the air supply")
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/19/microsoft_killed_dell_linux_states/
>
> "Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I'm going to fucking bury
> that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to
> fucking kill Google."
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/05/chair_chucking/

Ahhh, how nostalgic!

-- 
"Hey!  Who took the cork off my lunch??!"
		-- W. C. Fields

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