From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13541 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Wes Hardaker Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Me, the businessperson Date: 09 Jan 1998 08:23:43 -0800 Organization: U.C.Davis, Information Technology - D.C.A.S. Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035152887 9772 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:28:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:28:07 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA10630 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 08:22:03 -0800 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA03789 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 10:24:51 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAN15335; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 11:01:38 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 09 Jan 1998 10:24:05 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA02074 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 10:23:58 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 9999 invoked by uid 504); 9 Jan 1998 16:23:45 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 9996 invoked from network); 9 Jan 1998 16:23:45 -0000 Original-Received: from oakdale.ucdavis.edu (@128.120.226.188) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 9 Jan 1998 16:23:44 -0000 Original-Received: (from hardaker@localhost) by oakdale.ucdavis.edu (8.7.1/8.7.3) id IAA06386; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 08:23:43 -0800 (PST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: #qW^}a%m*T^{A:Cp}$R\"38+d}41-Z}uU8,r%F#c#s:~Nzp0G9](s?,K49KJ]s"*7gvRgA SrAvQc4@/}L7Qc=w{)]ACO\R{LF@S{pXfojjjGg6c;q6{~C}CxC^^&~(F]`1W)%9j/iS/ IM",B1M.?{w8ckLTYD'`|kTr\i\cgY)P4 X-url: http://dcas.ucdavis.edu/~hardaker In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "09 Jan 1998 09:11:52 +0100" Original-Lines: 24 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.18/XEmacs 20.3 - "Vatican City" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13541 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13541 >>>>> On 09 Jan 1998 09:11:52 +0100, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen said: Lars> Oh, Gnus? I've already sold that to Microsoft. They're not Lars> really interested in it; they just want to use their ownership Lars> to challenge the validity of the GNU copyright in general to be Lars> able to take over Linux. Oh cool! Some of my code has been sold to Microsoft! Wow! You know, I had this idea the other day: Write a really cool package intending it to be targeted by Microsloth. Make it perfect and bugless; develop a decent, happy, user base; begin negotiations with Microsoft at the same time as you begin throwing in bugs and coding practice; finish sale to microsoft selling them the current code set; when they release the next version, full of bugs (like you really needed add any to make this happen), exclaim to the public that when the project was under your control no versions were ever released with the major bugs that Microsoft must have introduced... Repeat as necessary. (heck the cash alone from this is worth it). Wes -- "Ninjas aren't dangerous. They're more afraid of you than you are of them."