Wha? they go outlaw windows? Shareholders wont do non of that in realm of lawsuits because M$ & the media done a good job at brain neutering the masses and furthering intellectual ejemity<sp> in the schools. Damn, I taking cis-2 and they concentrate in M$ details of operation and not on raw talent, teacher go ding you in the grade dept. if your comment block is not just sooooo perfect... shit. --chris 11/1/02 7:15:08 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: >On Fri, 01 Nov 2002 09:10:59 EST, John Stracke <jstracke@centivinc.com> said: >> Sean Jones wrote: >> >I understand where I went wrong. But I doubt that any commercial enterprise would want to block access to MS servers in RL. >> Well, it'd be a good way to inhibit people from sneaking Windows into >> the company. > >And in addition, not all the net is a "commercial enterprise". There's a very >large worldwide presence in the gov/edu/org arenas - and a *LOT* of those >organizations have political, philosophical, or other reasons for blocking >Microsoft. I'm sure there's privately held companies that can afford to have >similar views - and I'm waiting for a shareholder suit against the board of a >publicly held company for decreasing profits by continuing to permit the use a >certain MUA even though it's one of the leading causes of virus and worm >propagation... > >-- > Valdis Kletnieks > Computer Systems Senior Engineer > Virginia Tech > >