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To: ALL IN PAUL who wrote (799)	12/31/1998 12:36:00 AM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2617

Thanks Laron. IT professional relative is running a laptop with Linux only ... and is impressed with StarOffice. I like Applix but haven't tried any others. He had to buy a driver for his video card for $150 from xig.com We need more IT pros spreading the word. Did RedHat have everything you needed for the Toshiba? Does anyone know about the beta version of RedHat using the KDE desktop? kde.org I don't expect Linux to capture even ten percent of the desktop in the next few years but the action's on the network anyway. Happy New Year to everyone ... Best of luck.

To: ALL IN PAUL who wrote (799)	12/31/1998 2:55:00 AM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 2617

What I bin saying all along. My project of the new GUI desktop for the millenium needs cash. How about sending us a coupla million to get started. Gnome is stalled as Stallman has carpal tunnel and cannot type and his mexican replacement is a bit green, though whiz by all accounts. I think about 20 programmers and a commercial chimerical focus could do as well as Open systems. Open systems is really just a few whiz volunteers on a mission. Beats Microsoft, but then that would not be too hard. Once you get more than 17 programmers on a project it doesn't help anyway. mailto:echarter@vianet.on.ca EC<:-}

To: ALL IN PAUL who wrote (799)	1/1/1999 1:29:00 AM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2617

WOW! What do you boys and girls think of this? nytimes.com Major Court Decisions Will Shape the Internet in 1999 H.L. Mencken, the sage of Baltimore, once advised that when crafting an editorial, it is better to be wrong than timorous. The same truth might be applied to the prognostication business, where boldness counts. With that in mind, Cyber Law Journal asked a panel of legal experts to predict the most significant or interesting developments in Internet law and policy for 1999. What follows are edited excerpts from some of their fearless responses. Eben Moglen, professor, Columbia Law School 1. U.S. v. Microsoft: Should it happen that Microsoft is found liable for antitrust violations, the single most important legal event of 1999 will be the decision as to what do about it. The right answer is to make slight compulsory licensing changes to allow the volunteer programmers all over the world who write the free GNU/Linux operating system to release code freely that would make GNU/Linux run Windows applications programs. That way anyone who now uses Windows-based programs of any kind could run those programs either under Windows or under a much more technically sophisticated but completely free alternative operating system. Immediately, Microsoft would have the strongest possible competition in its core market, eliminating the problem of possible coercion of other market participants, and with a minimum of government intervention in industry. Please don't rain on my fantasy ... Best of luck.