Alan Hess wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

AH> Whilst masticating on , Roy J. Tellason (1:270/615)
AH> wrote to Alan Hess:

RJT>>> Yeah,  but billy boy wants to just "rent" his OS and 
RJT>>> application software, you'll just have to boot on to the 'net, 
RJT>>>  and run stuff that's sitting on their servers,  somewhere.  
RJT>>> Along with your data.  Forget to make a payement and you don't 
RJT>>> get at your data...   At least that's what I hear he *wants* to do.

MMC>>> Yep.  That's what the new "Windows.NET" is all about!

RJT>> Well,  as far as I'm concerned,  they can keep it!

AH>> Billy will get what he wants.   *adh*

RJT> Not from me,  he won't!  :-)

AH> I've tried to avoid M$, so far.  How long can I last, I wonder,
AH> before I'm assimilated?

Looking at what's sitting here,  there's one box running 98,  one running
w3.1,  one running dos/dv (this one),  one running OS/2,  one running unix,
 and two running linux.  There are *no* plans to get w2k or xp or NT on
anything here for the forseeable future...

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