A blast from the past. It appears that in February of 1992 I was on Microsoft's enemies list. Apparently Microsoft was trying to keep information about MsDOS and Windows 3.1 out of my hands. Someone emailed me this document from the Comes v. Microsoft trial. Trying to figure out what this means and get more information about it.
Here's the Document.
Back in 1992 I was involved in a number of interesting projects. I had a software company called Computer Tyme Software and I was looking hard for undocumented API calls to that I could control more aspects of the operating system through the ment language I had developed. I had also met with Novell's Ray Noorda and had written a proposal that Novell get into the desktop operating system market with a 32 bit Unix like DOS and I wrote a partial specification for this operating system and sent it to Novell.
Here's the story on that.
Novell however, instead of working with me to develop this idea decided to screw me and went off and bought out Digital Research and bought Unix from AT&T and Wordperfect and managed to screw it all up and started Novell's decline. Had Novell worked with me and taken a different course history would have been significantly different.
Little then I know then that my name appeared on secret confidential Microsoft documents as a person who should be denied information about DOS and Windows beta programs. I think this could turn out to be interesting. Love to find out more about this.
Letter to the Editor
There is talk that Bush might order an illegal attack against Iran and there is also talk that several generals might refuse to cooperate with that plan. We are a nation of the people, by the people, and for the people. That means that the people come first.
Government workers are suppose to follow the lawful orders of their superiors. The key phrase here being "lawful" If you are a government worker and your superior or your president orders you to do something that is not lawful then you are obligated to refuse to act on that order. You must say "no" because your loyalty is to the people, not the president. So if the order comes to attack Iran and the Congress hasn't authorized it then it is your duty to refuse to obey. If the president commits treason and you go along with it then you are a party to that treason. I am asking all public servants and members of the military to remember that you serve the people, not the government, and not the president.
Letter to the Editor
A lot of people accuse President Bush of doing dishonest things. But I think if Bush were put on trial for telling the truth, he would be found - Innocent!
Letter to the Editor
Our troop surge allow the British a window of opportunity to "cut and run" leaving Bush's war for Bush to solve, and rightly so. This is Bush's disaster and Bush and his right wing Republican backers need to own it. Are the soldiers over there fighting in vein? Is it a lost cause? Is it a failure? Of course it is.
The only meaning that is going to come from these lives that are still being sacrificed for nothing is that it will be a message to future generations to refuse to die for the wrong cause. And it is also a lesson that teaches Americans that if we vote for Republicans and if we let Evangelicals use the military to fight a religious war then we have to pay a price. If we don't rub their noses in heir defeat then those troops have truly died for nothing. Only by learning our lesson that this war was wrong can give this war any value at all.
Letter to the Editor
Bush and the Republicans keep saying that "we have to fight them over there because if we withdraw they will follow us over here". That's as much of a lie as the lies that got us into this occupation in the first place. The truth is that being over there has absolutely nothing to do with them coming over here at all. All we are doing is wasting our resources, killing our troops for no reason while we sit in the middle of an Iraqi civil war. We are more at risk staying there than bringing the troops home because if we are attacked here our troops are over there and there's no one to defend the homeland.
Letter to the Editor
Reverend Ted Haggard emerged for three weeks of treatment and announced that he's been cured of being homosexual. What a miraculous event! Now he should go into treatment to be cured of being a lier, but if he gets cured of that his homosexual problem might come back.
The big question is if his New Life Church is going to believe him and that depends on if they want to believe him. That does seem to be what faith is about, that if you want to believe something hard enough then that makes it true. Will they have enough faith to maintain the illusion or will reality reach out and tap them on the shoulder? Sincerity is most important when it comes to religion and faith. Once you learn how to fake that you have it made.
Letter to the Editor
People in the news media are asking why Bush doesn't get more credit for the economy. Maybe it's because America went from the world's biggest surplus under Clinton to the world's biggest deficit under Bush. Maybe it's because Bush ran the national debt up higher than all the presidents put together. Maybe it's because the price of gasoline has tripled while the minimum wage has stayed the same. Or maybe it's because this president has never got anything right so why would we believe he got the economy right? The reason people don't give Bush credit for the economy is because we just don't believe it.
Letter to the Editor
Those who refuse to learn from their mistakes are bound to keep paying the price when they do the same thing again. You would have thought we would have learned from Vietnam but the right wing has been arguing for war for the last 40 years. Now they have the power they started another war and have proved those who are on the side of peace were right yet again.
This is what happens when we let the right wing take power. They got us in a hole and they just keep digging it deeper. Instead of give peace a chance they are singing give war a chance. The more they fight the more they lose. Since we didn't learn from Vietnam maybe we should give war a chance and see how much failure we can stand before we throw the rest of the Republicans out of office. How much failure do we need before it's time to give peace a chance?