[ale] Unisys and Microsoft's way out

[Charles Shapiro]

Oh mah gawd. I just got a phone call from a Unisys salesman who
apparently thought I had gotten an email ad (spam?) re the
"wehavethewayout" site. I reckon his long-term goal was to sell me one
of those 32-way ES7000 Winders systems. I reckon it'd crash Windows 95
pretty way fast. He was very courteous, even when I told him that we're
using Open Source and lovin' it.  He also claimed that the site (
http://wehavethewayout.com ) was back on the air. Alas, when I checked
it five minutes ago it turned out that he was mistaken.

So it goes in the wonderful world of closed-source software marketing.
I'll email the two pdfs I pulled off the site for if requested.

-- CHS

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Shapiro 
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 9:19 AM
To: 'Calvin Harrigan'
Cc: 'ale at ale.org'
Subject: RE: [ale] Unisys and Microsoft's way out


Oh this is rich. I signed up on their site to take a look at the white
papers.
Here's a quote from the one on the Unisys ES7000, the largest Windows
machine currently available.

<<snip>>

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