February 28, 2007

Am I on Microsoft's Enemies List?

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.

Posted by marc at 07:28 AM | Comments (0)

February 27, 2007

Public Servants must be loyal to the people

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.

Posted by marc at 05:47 PM | Comments (0)