1994-08-02 - Re: Questions about Microsoft and Software Key Escrow

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From: Daniel Carosone <danielce@ee.mu.oz.au>
To: Aron Freed <s009amf@discover.wright.edu>
Message Hash: 4bdb85cdf894bccc666a78c9e7d01d2266b53c81c46415e652f55b2c0a5217bd
Message ID: <199408021436.AAA09246@anarres>
Reply To: <199407281915.MAA13890@netcom10.netcom.com>
UTC Datetime: 1994-08-02 14:25:58 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 2 Aug 94 07:25:58 PDT

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From: Daniel Carosone <danielce@ee.mu.oz.au>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 94 07:25:58 PDT
To: Aron Freed <s009amf@discover.wright.edu>
Subject: Re: Questions about Microsoft and Software Key Escrow
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Aron Freed writes:

 > Here's another possibility.. We put out the word that we don't buy 
 > Chicago or any somftware that has SKE built in. KEep your old stuff or 
 > make your own operating system. I think most of the computer programmers 
 > could on joint effort create something better than what is on the market 
 > anyway.

An off-topic aside: this is already done. Check out the NetBSD and
Linux projects sometime. NetBSD is about to release 1.0, the first
fully-working unencumbered release of bsd 4.4 for several
platforms. Linux is well known by now. I have both, they are far
superior for my needs than any MS product.

--
Dan.

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• 1994-07-28 (Wed, 27 Jul 94 22:47:05 PDT) - RE: Questions about Microsoft and Software Key Escrow - Blanc Weber <blancw@microsoft.com>
  • 1994-07-28 (Thu, 28 Jul 94 07:51:03 PDT) - RE: Questions about Microsoft and Software Key Escrow - Jacob.Levy@Eng.Sun.COM (Jacob Levy)
    • 1994-07-28 (Thu, 28 Jul 94 11:08:27 PDT) - RE: Questions about Microsoft and Software Key Escrow - Berzerk <berzerk@xmission.xmission.com>
      • 1994-07-28 (Thu, 28 Jul 94 12:15:54 PDT) - Re: Questions about Microsoft and Software Key Escrow - tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
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