Very Computer

Hehe.  Gates is claiming he can't find the source code that the judge
ordered him to turn over to Caldera.  "The dog ate my homework" !   How
quaint.

http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/news/0824/27acald.html

m$ says they can't find the source for W95, DOS, and "The Crown Jewels"
- Q-DOS, which Gates bought for peanuts.  

Maybe Bill should look under his bed.  Maybe the judge will help him
find it.  

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Quote:>Hehe.  Gates is claiming he can't find the source code that the judge
>ordered him to turn over to Caldera.  "The dog ate my homework" !   How
>quaint.

>http://www.veryComputer.com/

>m$ says they can't find the source for W95, DOS, and "The Crown Jewels"
>- Q-DOS, which Gates bought for peanuts.  

>Maybe Bill should look under his bed.  Maybe the judge will help him
>find it.  

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Quote:>Hehe.  Gates is claiming he can't find the source code that the judge
>ordered him to turn over to Caldera.  "The dog ate my homework" !   How
>quaint.
>http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/news/0824/27acald.html
>m$ says they can't find the source for W95, DOS, and "The Crown Jewels"
>- Q-DOS, which Gates bought for peanuts.  
>Maybe Bill should look under his bed.  Maybe the judge will help him
>find it.  

I just want to say thanks for the post.  Like many of us, I don't have time to
do all the research I should.  I very much appreciate being pointed to a
relevant article.  Sounds like a good one.  Thanks!
LShaping.

"The Internet, another innovative product from Microsoft"

Thanks for the heads up on m$'s defense strategy bro.  Of course, the
RACE CARD !  The DOJ's only picking on Bill because he's black (* in
the woodpile).  Andreasen's always using the N word, and sometimes the L
word too.  He probably planted those incriminating memos in Bills desk,
on a visit to Redmond.  Now if they can only get judge Ito assigned to
the case.  

Worked for OJ !

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added this to the Deja-News archive:

Quote:>Hehe.  Gates is claiming he can't find the source code that the judge
>ordered him to turn over to Caldera.  "The dog ate my homework" !   How
>quaint.

>http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/news/0824/27acald.html

>m$ says they can't find the source for W95, DOS, and "The Crown Jewels"
>- Q-DOS, which Gates bought for peanuts.  

>Maybe Bill should look under his bed.  Maybe the judge will help him
>find it.  

If I remember correctly, Q-DOS is a product which Microsoft had and worked
on nearly twenty years ago, when the company was a thousandth the size it
is now -- and was located in a different city. Are you really surprised
that they couldn't locate it?

Small companies (and Microsoft was really quite tiny then) are not usually
very good about doing formal archives; that's usually something they learn
by getting burned on.

Yes, I'm sure it's emotionally satisfying to laugh at them for this, but
doing so betrays your ignorance, I fear I must say.

Twenty years is a long time. Can you find all the work you did twenty years
ago? I sure can't.

You're not fearing saying it.  You're enjoying it bootlick.   You're
efforts to be a clear, objective thinker are about as transparent as a
window.

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On Fri, 28 Aug 1998 15:08:25 GMT, Steven C. Den Beste

No.  Not long ago I noticed one of the Netscape developers posting around
looking for copies of pre-1.0 Netscape software, which he hadn't saved.

However, QDOS wasn't the only thing missing.  Windows 95 code was among
the "lost" code, according to that article.  Perhaps you should read the
materials being commented on before you make accusations of ignorance.

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Quote:>Yes, I'm sure it's emotionally satisfying to laugh at them for this, but
>doing so betrays your ignorance, I fear I must say.

>Twenty years is a long time. Can you find all the work you did twenty years
>ago? I sure can't.

Oh, so the portions of Windows 95 that are alleged to have been lost were
also written 20 years ago?  Actually, I guess that shouldn't surprise me.

What's really scary, though, is that this is the company that sell Visual
Source Safe.  Uh huh, yeah, I bet that's a really good product, sure... M$
knows all about keeping the source safe--from the prying eyes of the law.

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: Hehe.  Gates is claiming he can't find the source code that the judge
: ordered him to turn over to Caldera.  "The dog ate my homework" !   How
: quaint.
:  
: http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/news/0824/27acald.html
:  
: m$ says they can't find the source for W95, DOS, and "The Crown Jewels"
: - Q-DOS, which Gates bought for peanuts.  

: Maybe Bill should look under his bed.  Maybe the judge will help him
: find it.  

Well to their credit Microsoft is smart enough not to use Source Unsafe.
They actually use an internal tool (I think its called slime) that uses
an SQL backend.

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AFAIK they have to turn over the DOS part of Win95, not Q-DOS. It
definitely is the DOS part of Win95 where they can't find all the
sources...

 -Mike

Your last comment is interesting in the presence of this quote from
Steven:
"I limited myself to the part of the question for which I knew the
answer. (A practice I sometimes wish was more common in this forum.)"

It begs the question, is it a lie to tell the truth slowly?

dp

Quote:

>Your last comment is interesting in the presence of this quote from
>Steven:
>"I limited myself to the part of the question for which I knew the
>answer. (A practice I sometimes wish was more common in this forum.)"

>It begs the question, is it a lie to tell the truth slowly?

>dp

I was the person Steve made the above reply too-and yes, it is a form of
deception, at the least.  Perhaps not a lie, but not far from it.  Steve
has been practicing the ancient black art of selective facts-i.e., what he
says is literally the truth.  It's not the entire truth, or it is often
completely off point to the orginal question, but the intent is to mislead
and/or deceive the sucker into drawing the wrong conclusion entirely on
their own.  I routinely deal with attorneys who employ this tactic all the
time-after a while it gets real old.

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