Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ

2005-10-20 Thread T Beck
stuff, and I'm sure most every other sucessful company has. Just because we got a lawsuit to watch for MS doesn't mean other companies like Sony or IBM haven't done similar stuff we've never heard of. I'm just trying to figure out how offering their contract changed from OK to not OK, based purely on how well they were doing... --T Beck -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-08-29 Thread T Beck
John Bokma wrote: > "T Beck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [snip] > > alongside of it. The internet is a free-flowing evolving place... to > > try to protect one little segment like usenet from ever evolving is > > just ensuring it's slo

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-08-26 Thread T Beck
John Bokma wrote: > "T Beck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If we argue that people are evolving the way e-mail is handled, and > > adding entire new feature sets to something which has been around > > since the earliest days of the internet, then that&#

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-08-25 Thread T Beck
today only remotely resembles the original, so the argument that usenet should never change seems a little heavy-handed and anachronistic. --T Beck -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list