[ossig] Updates from the rAT

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u guys gotta read this... ;-) ... especially Butt Lips.... ;-)

`MOONING THE GIANT'
by Jay Greene in Seattle | Feb 05 '01

It's a short trip between love and hate. Just ask Tod Nielsen. 
A year ago, he was a trusted employee at Microsoft Corp. Chairman 
William H. Gates III had such faith in the young vice-president 
that he pulled him aside and asked him to go to Washington, D.C., 
to be his eyes and ears at the landmark antitrust trial. There, 
even in the face of mounting evidence of anticompetitive behavior, 
Nielsen insisted that Microsoft was not the bully the government 
portrayed. These days, Gates and Nielsen talk only through lawyers, 
and Nielsen knows firsthand about Microsoft's strong-arm tactics. 
......

http://www.keepmedia.com/ShowItemDetails.do?itemID=15473&extID=10043&data=microsoft_president_steven_a._ballmer
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Tze Meng's gotta have some news about this.... right??  ;-)

Euro filing reveals Apple 'handheld computer'
By Tony Smith
Published Friday 13th August 2004 13:57 GMT

Apple has filed for a European design trademark which may provide a 
tantalising glimpse of the company's long-awaited tablet computer.

The filing, made in May this year but only published this week, 
covers a "handheld computer" and contains sketches of what look like 
an iBook screen minus the body of the computer.

http://www.theregister.com/2004/08/13/apple_tablet_mac/
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Perens readies old-school Linux, but who wants it?

Big names won't be backing UserLinux distribution ......But response 
to the project from the rest of the industry has been cool.

http://www.vnunet.com/news/1157304
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