Linus Quitting

[burns]

On April  1, 2002 09:21 pm, dep wrote:
> begin  Kurt Wall's  quote:
> | > http://www.linuxandmain.com/news/topstory.html
> |
> | Well, then, I'd be the April Fool. *That's* a big surprise. ;-)
>
> yeah -- but what do you think of the screenshots of the new text-mode
> kde?
>
> (actually, i just now put up a story that is of some *actual*
> importance: it looks as if the technology required by the sssca [now
> the cbdtpa] was *patented by microsoft* last december. it does more
> than the bill requires, though, allowing for public-key stuff between
> chip and software, thereby making it impossible to run non-microsoft
> products.)


If you have further info on this dep, please let me know... that's the line 
of work I'm in right now and I would like to make sure that the right people 
get 'ground truth' info instead of just Microsoft's propaganda.
-- 
burns