* Reply to a msg from Gene Tucker @ 1:270/101 on 10-06-99        
 
 GT> Stardock just tried that as of the 18th of September. IBM said 
 GT> NO quite simply.  
 
"NO quite simply" as in: 
 
1) "Duh, no" 2) "NO" 3) "NOt enough $$$ offered" 4) "NOw way my big customers 
will stand for this" 5) All of the above 
 
Answer 5.  A company that would give up the consumer desktop with nary a
wimper to the likes of MSoft AND sell off its global Points Of Presence on the 
Internet to AT&T is not intellectually based on any market known on this
planet. 
 
Rumor:  The Fishkill NY Plant will soon be retrofited to produce VERY thin
cookies.  IBM has discovered cookies are an integral part of Internet
communications.  A sub-micron cookie is possible in this high technology
manufacturing facility.  
 
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