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  From: Alan Kennington <akenning@dog.topology.org>
  To  : LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 03:25:54 +1030

MS warns against naked PCs

Since the linuxSA mailing list has gone quiet for
a few hours, I thought I might post this little item
on the dangers of naked PCs:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/14955.html

The propaganda war is heating up, looks like.
The emotional langauge from MS is a bit extreme.
If you're under 18, you might like to give this
one a miss.
And here are the MS items:

http://www.microsoft.com/OEM/nakedPC_old.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/OEM/nakedPC.htm

Of course this is designed to stop dealers from selling PCs
for use with linux.
I bought a laptop a year ago, and the dealer insisted
on selling me an old $50 wind95, although the laptop
was second-hand.

Cheers,
Alan Kennington.

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PS.
By the way, about once a week or so on average,
someone in the domain microsoft.com browses through
my web pages - especially the linux.html file!
Here's a small sample.

Linux links:
tide86.microsoft.com - - [22/Nov/2000:17:48:56 +1030] "GET /linux.html HTTP/1.0" 200 79509 

Open source simulation software:
tide120.microsoft.com - - [16/Nov/2000:12:38:08 +1030] "GET /sim.html HTTP/1.0" 200 22304   
tide121.microsoft.com - - [16/Nov/2000:12:40:09 +1030] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 21548
tide120.microsoft.com - - [16/Nov/2000:12:40:56 +1030] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.0" 200 5694

Linux:
tide120.microsoft.com - - [16/Nov/2000:07:20:43 +1030] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 200 345
tide120.microsoft.com - - [16/Nov/2000:07:21:08 +1030] "GET /linux.html HTTP/1.0" 200 78915

Open source licences:
tide85.microsoft.com - - [09/Nov/2000:02:22:47 +1030] "GET /lice.html HTTP/1.0" 200 26815  

MP3 files:
tide93.microsoft.com - - [07/Nov/2000:12:03:26 +1030] "GET /mp3.html HTTP/1.0" 200 6102 

Australian trees!:
tide131.microsoft.com - - [07/Nov/2000:09:34:52 +1030] "GET /trees.html HTTP/1.0" 200 13578   

Palm organizer software:
tide88.microsoft.com - - [06/Nov/2000:15:58:16 +1030] "OPTIONS /palmsoft.html HTTP/1.0" 200 - 
tide91.microsoft.com - - [05/Nov/2000:03:48:17 +1030] "GET /src/palm/aknp1/README.html HTTP/1.0" 200 11390 

Open source network monitoring software:
tide78.microsoft.com - - [26/Oct/2000:23:10:57 +0930] "GET /netmon.html HTTP/1.0" 200 10825 

Australian snowfields:
tide23.microsoft.com - - [24/Oct/2000:10:08:29 +0930] "GET /snow.html HTTP/1.0" 200 2119    

My one and only Apache module:
tide77.microsoft.com - - [20/Oct/2000:06:33:16 +0930] "GET /src/bwshare/README.html HTTP/1.0" 200 19746

etc. etc.

I'm a little surprised that MS people are taking such an interest
in open source and linux sorts of things.
The strongest interest from MS is in the open source
network monitoring tools.
So expect to see some new "intergration" of network monitoring
tools into MS software some time soon!

I'm pretty sure these are MS employees, because after one
spate of browsing, I was contacted by the MS employee doing the
browsing. He was working on bluetooth....

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