The best thing is what you are doing, shining a light on misbehavior. Ben Tilly wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Uri Guttman <u...@stemsystems.com> wrote: > >>>>>>> "RW" == Ricker, William <william.ric...@fmr.com> writes: >>>>>>> >> RW> We got this thru the Leaders' lists. That's a busy weekend. Maybe Uri, >> RW> Ron and I will draw straws ... >> >> i would prefer to draw a gallon of blood! not much chance i would step >> foot on any property with redmond's curse on it. i still harbor a >> personal grudge from them intentionally lying to our face when i was in >> a startup way back. i can spew the ugly details if anyone dares to hear >> them. >> > > All they did was intentionally lie to you? You were lucky. It could > have been *much* worse. > > When my friend Ed Curry called them on their illegally claiming that > NT 4.0 was C2 certified so they could sell it to government > departments that by law required that certification, their response > was to convince his clients to take their business elsewhere, then > after his company folded and he found a new job they called up his new > boss before he started and asked how much they needed to pay to get > him fired before he began. > > There is no question that this stress was a significant contributer to > his fatal heart attack on March 24, 1999. I therefore blame his death > on them. > > For the record, since Microsoft did so much to muddy the question, > design decisions in NT 4.0 such as moving the video drivers to ring 0 > meant that it would never achieve C2 certification. In the end after > 6 service packs they managed to get a British certification that they > called "C2 equivalent". But they never earned that certification and > their operating system should have never been sold for use in the US > military. > > While I acknowledge that they began making efforts to improve their > corporate image after the EU levied big enough fines to make them sit > up and notice, it will take a looong time before I'm willing to give > up my grudge. And I know quite a few other people who feel similarly. > > Cheers, > Ben > > _______________________________________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > Boston-pm@mail.pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm >
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