On Friday 15 August 2003 11:59 pm, Harv Nelson wrote: <snip>
> RE Texas Insturments: They used to put out stuff that even > ran on a Commodore 64 ... but that was a while back. I'm > wondering if your "Derive" program is just an old script that > might be run with dosemu? </snip> No, I've tried that, of course. It seems to be *graphical*. <snip> > Where I live, the Great State of Wisconsin, on America's > North Coast (Lake Superior/Lake Michigan), the University of > Wisconsin has recently terminated all of it's site licensing > agreements with Microsoft > > http://www.doit.wisc.edu/news/story.asp?filename=127 > > much as the City of Munich in Germany did recently. This > will force students who have not already purchased > software/licenses at lowered rates, to seek cheaper (Open > Source) alternatives. </snip> Well, the Munich deal was a breakthrough here in Europe insofar public administration is concerned. But scientists, students and other nice people have been using Linux for years. Not because it is cheaper, but because it's open. <snip> > I read somplace (I think "the Register") that Bill Gates had > recently dumped 26 million in M$ stock holdings ... and his > cheif lacky, Steve Balmer had dumped stock valued at 1.45 > BILLION! Perhaps that is the best "hand-writting-on-the-wall" > yet. </snip> Would you buy a share ??? <snip> > RE Texas: Here in the US, we are waiting patiently for the > Congress to pass legislation admitting that the South actually > did win the Civil War of 1865. This will allow those southern > states (Texas among them) to secede from the Union with grace > ... and those states in the north, that are so inclined, can > seek a union with Canada. Our interests here, more nearly > match those of the Canadians rather than the interests of the > Texas/Washington DC/Wall Street/Redmond axis. > > Let the flame war begin :-) > > Best regards, and good luck for the girls > > Harv / AI9NL > Washburn, Wisconsin </snip> Same here in Europe, Harv. The Pope is far away from Scandinavia. Kaj Haulrich. -- Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.1 kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdk Sent to you from a 100 % Micro$oft-free computer.
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