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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (37802)	8/8/1999 11:14:00 AM
From: qdog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Hmmmmmm, Let see, I was arrested in Cameroun on suspiscion of being a mercenary after a bloody coup d'etat attempt, not that I was one. Where was my government? I was in Aden, Yemen at the beginning of the '94 Civil War and all that I saw evac was the French Navy and private tankers. Where was my government, even though there was a big fotilla near the Hormuz Strait? I guess neither was big enough to bother with or companies involved were better and more expierenced to handle the situation on their own. Then there is the US government putting me in harms way by snatching Carlos Leder Rivas from Colombia in 1986/87 (old age is a terrible thing). Seems the price for gringo's went straight up and faster than a momentum players parabolic rise of worthless stock. As to Linux being some sort of commie plot. Read the the license agreement on the Kernel. Absolutely companies are going to take advantage of this and make money on the service side and peripheral such as applications. Even the worthless MSFT is thinking of porting MS Office to Linux. The beauty of it is they can't co-opt it. They have to follow the license agreement. It's better for developers as they don't have to wait for the Grand Hustler to drop his hand and say "Develop". Companies are able to begin programming as soon as the lastest update is widely and freely available. Ain't no one to piss off or be held hostage, like IBM was by MSFT as legal proceeding has shown with Win 95. It gets productivity products to the market faster as well. It, in fact, speeds the development of innovation even faster than Master Microsofties denizens of indenture slaves. Last, it finally drops the final barrier to computing on an equal basis for all by removing the last biggest expense to computing, overpriced OS. You may upgrade for $100 bucks, but Mr. Softie's original price is over $300. You think your service for problems with $illy's OS is free? Money grubber stiffs you almost immediately for it. And now the latest update of the great Cracker showdown. Seems the Linux server went ahead and challenged the hackers further with giving them the admin password a few days ago. As per Mr. Softie modus operandi, they followed suit a few days later, once they got the server to work. BEWARE THE PENGUIN.....IN THE RED HAT