Re: This has got to drive RMS nuts

2005-03-01 Thread Bill Sconce
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 22:13:31 -0500 Greg Rundlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just noticed that Microsoft has used the acronym 'RMS' to stand for 'Rights Management Services'[1]. That has got to drive the real RMS nuts. Well, actually, I can't speak for him, but it kinda drives me nuts

Re: This has got to drive RMS nuts

2005-03-01 Thread Benjamin Scott
tongue.insert (head-cheek); On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, at 11:57pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would not be so quick to dismiss the possibility of conscious acronym overloading on the part of a company who supposedly considered the application of the HAL naming algorithm (IBM+1) in naming Windows NT

Re: This has got to drive RMS nuts

2005-03-01 Thread Bill Mullen
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 09:28, Benjamin Scott wrote: tongue.insert (head-cheek); [snip] You do realize that Microsoft is not, in fact, staffed by physical incarnations of pure evil, I hope. Of course not! One would expect that the purity level varies markedly, from one minion to the next;

Re: This has got to drive RMS nuts

2005-02-28 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, at 10:13pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just noticed that Microsoft has used the acronym 'RMS' to stand for 'Rights Management Services'[1]. That has got to drive the real RMS nuts. I highly doubt Windows Rights Management Services has any connection at all to Richard

Re: This has got to drive RMS nuts

2005-02-28 Thread L.B. MCCULLEY
got to drive RMS nuts To: Greater NH Linux User Group gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, at 10:13pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just noticed that Microsoft has used the acronym 'RMS' to stand for 'Rights Management Services'[1]. That has got to drive the real RMS nuts. I

This has got to drive RMS nuts

2005-02-22 Thread Greg Rundlett
I just noticed that Microsoft has used the acronym 'RMS' to stand for 'Rights Management Services'[1]. That has got to drive the real RMS nuts. Well, actually, I can't speak for him, but it kinda drives me nuts because it seems like they are using their marketing dollars in a thinly veiled

Re: This has got to drive RMS nuts

2005-02-22 Thread Michael ODonnell
As everybody knows, RMS is an acronym for Root Mean Square, a.k.a. Donald Rumsfeld... ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss