Re: [Full-Disclosure] Microsoft runs early April Fools ad

From: Georgi Guninski (guninski@guninski.com)
Date: 03/24/03

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    From: Georgi Guninski <guninski@guninski.com>
To: Gerardo Richarte <core.lists.full-disclosure@corest.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 23:10:22 +0200

    hehehe, m$ claims are funny and far away from reality.
    If they are so sure, why don't they take responsibility for damages caused by
    their products? Any warranty for m$ products? How much money does it make every
    time a windoze crash?

    /me thinks that Kurt Vonnegut has explained it in this quote:

    the big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is
    such a thing as being smart. -- Kurt Vonnegut

    Georgi

    Gerardo Richarte wrote:
    > "Richard M. Smith" wrote:
    >
    >
    >>The Advertising Standards Authority of SA (ASA) has ordered that a
    >>Microsoft ad implying that its software will bring about the extinction
    >>of the hacker is to be pulled for being "unsubstantiated and
    >>misleading".
    >
    >
    > Heh, it's a funny phrase, and beside how capable Microsoft is of
    > fixing their bugs (which I'm not talking about at all), the phrase hides
    > some other sutff in it:
    >
    > On one side, by "Hackers", independently of what "Hacker" means, they are
    > putting a name on a group of people, and saying that they are going to extint this group
    > of people, which not a really happy idea...
    >
    > On the other side, either they will fix the bugs in every software out there, or they are
    > recognizing that they are planning that the only software which will be running any computer
    > out there will be Microsoft's, or at least based or using some Microsoft technology (the
    > technology to extinct hackers).
    >
    > heh, I just thought it was funny
    >
    > gera
    >
    >
    > --- for a personal reply use: gera@corest.com
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