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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems

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To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (31639)5/7/2000 6:19:00 PM
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Now if we really want to talk death penalty, here's clear, present and incontrovertible grounds right here. And while we're at it, let's use Clorox instead of barbiturates and potassium. We could do it in Texas, they'd go for that.

--QS

Edit: A remark as blatantly stupid and self-serving as the one below proves just how flawed is the public image of Gates as some kind of brilliant technical guy. I thought his main skill was cracking the whip on a team of lawyers, but this idiocy calls even that into question.

Headline: Gates: Viruses Harder To Protect

REDMOND, Wash. (AP) - ``Love Bugs'' of the future could be harder to protect against if Microsoft is split in two, company co-founder Bill Gates writes in an essay published in this week's Time magazine.

New versions of the Windows operating system and Office applications software that could offer protection from outside attacks would ``be much harder for computer users to obtain,'' Gates wrote in ``Viewpoint.'' The issue hits newsstands Monday.
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