Re: [newbie] OT - MS going open source

2003-01-18 Thread _nasturtium
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 12:12 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: _nasturtium wrote: snip double FibnForm::Calcul(double todo) { return( (sqrt(5) + 3) / (5 - sqrt(5)) * pow ((2 / (sqrt(5) - 1)), todo )+(3 - sqrt(5)) / (5 + sqrt(5)) * pow ( (2 / (-1 - sqrt(5))) , todo) ); } Leonardo de Pisa (of

Re: [newbie] OT - MS going open source

2003-01-17 Thread _nasturtium
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 12:44 am, Sharrea wrote: Came across this article today at http://www.fool.com/News/Take/2003/take030115.htm With governments from various countries switching to Linux, Micro$haft is obviously getting more than a little worried. hehe... Too late, they've missed the

Re: [newbie] OT - MS going open source

2003-01-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 06:13, _nasturtium wrote: And I know that this is OT to even this OT thread, but I was thinking: what if a person burnt 5 copies of Mandrake, and gave it free to 5 people, on the condition that they would each burn 5 copies, and give it away with the same

Re: [newbie] OT - MS going open source

2003-01-17 Thread _nasturtium
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 08:21 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 06:13, _nasturtium wrote: And I know that this is OT to even this OT thread, but I was thinking: what if a person burnt 5 copies of Mandrake, and gave it free to 5 people, on the condition that they would each burn

Re: [newbie] OT - MS going open source

2003-01-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 06:39, _nasturtium wrote: Like I said before when asked if I'm a redhat shill, Amway and AOL don't pay well enough. But think about it. By the time we reach the 10th level there's already over 10 million copies of mandrake! _nasturtium Where in the hell are ya

Re: [newbie] OT - MS going open source

2003-01-17 Thread civileme
On Friday 17 January 2003 10:39 am, _nasturtium wrote: On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 08:21 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 06:13, _nasturtium wrote: And I know that this is OT to even this OT thread, but I was thinking: what if a person burnt 5 copies of Mandrake, and gave it free

Re: [newbie] OT - MS going open source

2003-01-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 20:21, civileme wrote: Well we have a semantics problem perhaps. 1st level is the guy who gets one copy or pow(5,0)=1 10th level should be pow(5,9) copies, or slightly less than 2 million Previous level is less than 400,000 and total copies out there is like less

Re: [newbie] OT - MS going open source

2003-01-17 Thread _nasturtium
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 08:49 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 06:39, _nasturtium wrote: Like I said before when asked if I'm a redhat shill, Amway and AOL don't pay well enough. But think about it. By the time we reach the 10th level there's already over 10 million copies of

Re: [newbie] OT - MS going open source

2003-01-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 08:29, _nasturtium wrote: On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 08:49 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 06:39, _nasturtium wrote: Like I said before when asked if I'm a redhat shill, Amway and AOL don't pay well enough. But think about it. By the time we reach the

Re: [newbie] OT - MS going open source

2003-01-17 Thread _nasturtium
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 09:21 am, civileme wrote: On Friday 17 January 2003 10:39 am, _nasturtium wrote: But think about it. By the time we reach the 10th level there's already over 10 million copies of mandrake! _nasturtium Hmmm, Well we have a semantics problem perhaps. 1st level is

Re: [newbie] OT - MS going open source

2003-01-17 Thread _nasturtium
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 10:40 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 08:29, _nasturtium wrote: On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 08:49 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Where in the hell are ya gonna find 10 million computer owning/using people in Australia? - unless, of course, Centrelink is handing out

[newbie] OT - MS going open source

2003-01-15 Thread Sharrea
Came across this article today at http://www.fool.com/News/Take/2003/take030115.htm With governments from various countries switching to Linux, Micro$haft is obviously getting more than a little worried. hehe... Too late, they've missed the potential market in China... too bad... Here's an