[ale] Microsoft's 1984

[SanMillan, Todd]

   And at 5:37, you call the vendor provided (toll-charge long distance)
number and they offer to upgrade your support to the 24x7 Palladium option
for a low, low price.  You don't have any real option because you gambled
that it wouldn't happen to you and you lost that bet.  Now, in typical
management fashion, you run around and lock the barn door after the fleeing
horse by adding in the cost of the 24x7 option to your normal cost of doing
business, just like theft insurance and electricity.  To save face and avoid
admitting you screwed up, you tell all your business associates that they
should also spend the money for the after-hours support (does anyone really
believe you will tell your competitors how to save money by going the
open-source route, when you have already incurred the cost, so the only way
to level the playing field is to drag them down with you?). In typical
business herd-mentality (think air fares or 0% financing.  When one does it,
they all follow suit) everyone in your industry who hears your story
upgrades to Palladium support.  They then contribute to the Congressional
campaign of the rep who sponsors a bill to give your industry some
regulatory sinecure, like DRM or the DMCA or steel tariffs, because darn it,
that free enterprise competition stuff makes it just to hard to make a buck
(or if you're L. Dennis Kozlowski, $170 million bucks).

-----Original Message-----
From: Adrin [mailto:haswes at mindspring.com] 
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 7:26 PM
To: Bob Toxen; ale at ale.org
Subject: RE: [ale] Microsoft's 1984


Just more crap.   Anyone remember the Intel Pents. with the code in those
chips? And once
intel announced that it was there how ever raced to get software that would
disable it.
How Media player was recently sited for it messing up if you installed a new
hard drive?

So here is how it works.
So now I have a server with this chip in it. I am running a business that is
doing
$2,000,000.00 a month and guess what the server gets hit and the mother
board if fried.
but the hard drive is still good and the data on it is okay also.  So I put
the hard drive
in the new server. On top of the current pain of getting the Plug and play
OS to see the
new mother board and the new hardware I have to deal with the software being
disabled and
not working cause it is after 5:00 and the software venders office is closed
and I can't
get new keys to access the data.

Now I know why there is a 7 day wait on hand guns.  Sorry I am in a mood

Adrin


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Toxen [mailto:bob at verysecurelinux.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 4:23 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Microsoft's 1984
>
>
> This is how Microsoft will fight Open Source: make it illegal (in my
opinion):
>
> http://Security.ITtoolbox.com/news/dispnews.asp?i=83548
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