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Re: Thoughts from the Top



>>http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-4825719-RHAT.html?tag=ltnc
>>to see the very latest thinking from a bastion of American innovation.
>I also really like the patriotic tone of this as well.  Should he have had more
>flags behind him when he said this than  everyone from campaign 2000.  "I'm an
>American, I believe in the American way.  I believe in the right to overcharge
>for crappy software." said with hail to the chief in the background. 

M$-Windows 2000 Active Directory - Obviosuly derived from LDAP,  LDAP developed at the UofM (open source)
M$-Windows 2000 Security Subsystem - Derived directly from Kerberos, developed at MIT (open source)
M$-Windows 2000 Terminal Server - Based upon the thin-client concept,  where did that come from? X Consortium (open source)

Hmmmm..... this would be funny if I didn't think our leaders were ignorant/corrupt enough to accept the argument.

-Never trust a man with a flag.