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Re: use octets; and "escaping the piranha's"

From:
Paul Schinder
Date:
February 11, 2000 12:48
Subject:
Re: use octets; and "escaping the piranha's"
Message ID:
v04220803b4ca24c1efc9@[10.0.1.8]
At 3:26 PM -0500 2/11/00, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
>
>Remember the last year story of a (named) physic department chosing
>Macs for the department network?  "All the competitors are offering
>fixes for their OSes.  These OSes should be broken."  [quoting from memory]


It was the other way around as I recall.  They were choosing Windows 
because Apple was regularly releasing fixes to their OS, where 
Microsoft wasn't, at least acccording to the person desiring Windows. 
(Now *there's* a wretched state of mind: "desiring Windows".) 
Obviously, if you don't release fixes, there must not be anything 
wrong.

>
>Ilya

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