"Backdoors-galore " Bill wants to be the poster child for trusted computing?
Pull the other one....
I started on a PDP 11 and have danced to the MUSIC OS for IBM 360-370 ; I've dropped my card stack and cried for a week (physical chemistry special project - integrals out the wazoo submitted batch in 1974) and I've learned and forgotten more apps, OSes and compilers than I would ever wish on my worst enemy.
But Bill really takes the cake. I'm just a poor patent attorney (and, boys and girls, that means I had to have a core science degree before law school - and CS was not a "core science when I sat for the Patent Bar) trying to deal with the BS that Bill and his boys run through the USPTO. All that this latest business is is an attempt to strong-arm his way into another "area" of dominance by means other than innovation.
Look at www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/mpep_e7r1_2200.pdf
Then look at the history of the dodgy patents in the field at http://www.fairness.com/interviews/cella200010
finally, the outcome http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/ask_tim/2003/bountyquest_1003.html
Nice picture... but no comment on the biggest announcements from Microsoft for a long time? IE7 for this summer? Microsoft Antispyware to be free to validated users? Microsoft AntiVirus? I guess you might be napping or something.
Y'know, Perros, coming from a guy who hasn't made an entry in his own blog since May 11, 2004, implying that we're napping is just a bit more irony than my minimum daily requirement allows.
Did you, perchance, miss the February 8 post where we outted the MS purchase of security software provider Sybari? That's the one where we also speculated, "(Better still, do you think that they're getting ready to work on the next version of Internet Exploder?)"
That was what? A week ago?
Sorry. We'll try to be less ahead of the curve next time. ;-P
Yeah, that was an experiment you'll also find that nothing was posted before then either. I just though that it would be appropriate to comment on news even if you have speculated about the vague possibility of it before - with the wonders of the internet you could even link back to your previous post to demonstrate that you guessed this would happen. As you're trying to present yourself as a half-professional site, with your new name and everything, I would have thought that you'd think that was appropriate too, maybe I overestimated.
Of course there's nothing before it. That's why it's called a "first" post. It's the follow-through that counts. You not get enough fiber this morning?
Anyone can comment on the news. We tend to pre-empt the news, as we did in this case. Don't blame us if you don't read or remember what we wrote. We really have no desire to rehash old news.
As for the snippy "half professional" comment... When you can make a living doing something, that makes you a professional. When you can't or don't and try to tell someone else how they should do it, well, then you're something else.
