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To: JC Jaros who wrote (1466)	4/17/1999 9:10:00 AM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 2615

Ok! The wireless GUI mouse with overdrive and its own processor does sound exciting! But in order to fit it to an application we have in mind it must be fully quantized and vetted. Our director of corporate planning needs to know some parameters for implementation. 1. Temperature range it will handle in degrees Kelvin in a non- precipitating atmosphere. 2. microbaud rate per mile expressed as radians per dyne. 3. Does it have wheels? What is the unsprung weight? Can we fit it with domestic radials? 4. Is it water-proof and antimagnetic? To what depth? 5. Does it come with its own infrared drivers? How much do you have to pay them? (I presume they have green cards) 6. Does it have any natural enemies? We know some mice carry deer ticks and we were wondering if we need to spray it from time to time too. 7. Is it EPA approved/compliant for use in California and will it be Microsoft compatible when it crosses the border of that state? 8. Is it made from enviromentally safe, offshore grown, recycled materials by unionized labour whose mean age is greater than 16 years? 9. Is the instruction book printed in a language that is amenable to machine translation? 10. If used in a computer other than one manufactured by SUN, (I am assuming it has a degree of compatibility here that was implemented for advertising purposes) will the mouse remain functional long enough to surpass a nominal guarantee period without maintenance?

To: JC Jaros who wrote (1466)	4/19/1999 7:58:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2615

Open Source ... Where the Money Is Wired Magazine, May 1999, page 140. Good article on open source by Andrew Leonard. Open Season. -- Why an industry of cutthroat competition is suddenly deciding good karma is great business. -- Pages 144-145 ... "Tour de Source, A Guide to the Start-Ups" The list includes: Caldera Systems, Linuxcare, Penguin Computing, The Puffin Group, Scriptics, AbiSource, Sendmail Inc, Cobalt Networks, Leverage Information Systems, The Linux Mall, Lutris Technologies, Whistle Communications, ArsDigita, C2Net, Red Hat Software, VA Research, Pacific HiTech, SuSE, Berkeley Software Design Inc, Cyclades, Walnut Creek and Cygnus Solutions. The article also compares the cost of a 25-person LAN with open source software to one using Microsoft's products. Answer: $5,544.70 vs. MSFT's $21,453. I'm not one to give advice to anyone. But forget that and subscribe to WIRED. Get 14 months of WIRED for $19.98: cn13.freeshop.com Best of luck to all.