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Druid:
I came across this article and thought that it might be of interest.
Surprise Settlement Splits Microsoft

Druid

badkarma:
saw that a while back too .... nice sense of humour those guys over at satirewire have  

gump420:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Macro$haft doesn't actually make software. Shit, even WinXP is just a patched up version of Win2K.

voidmain:
And Win2k is just a screwed up version of NT.

iancom:
Careful now... that implies that NT wasn't screwed up!

I was most surprised a few weeks ago when I discovered that one of my NT servers had been up a whole *60 days* without a BSOD/reboot/reinstall SP6a/Security rollup farce.

Of course all of our Linux and FreeBSD servers have run continuously since the last time they needed a hardware or kernel upgrade. One of them has been up well over a year now.

Not to worry though... I am gradually and surreptitiously replacing the existing NT servers with Samba 2.2.3a. Done one already and nobody noticed. I tell a lie... a couple of people asked if I had changed anything since their network drives seemed a little faster..!

It's so difficult convincing manglement that Linux is a better solution than NT/2000. They seem to think that the mere fact that you pay through the nose for it means that it will be a high-quality and well-supported system.

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