Careful. MS' lawyers may take you. That .NET is a Java rip-off was supposed to be big a secret. <bg>

>MS "hinted" a couple of months ago that they were entering the "search engine" market; I think, at the time, they implied they would go "head-to-head" ... meaning, they would develop (new) search algorithms, etc.
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>ROFL ... particularly if you've ever used "search" out of MSN.COM.
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>In the end (predictably), MS' idea of entering the search engine market was to try and buy Google.
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>Google is putting their shares on the open market; GREAT !! I say ... even if it's only out of spite. Spite is good !
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>All this confirms is what a pathetic R&D company MS really is: unless they can "buy" the technology, MS has nothing to offer ... (.NET is actually a big Java ripp-off).
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>Three cheers for open source .... !!!
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>>A scary thought!
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>>Do we really want Microsoft and General Electric controlling the information we can access?
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>>Isn't GE making enough from the global arms market with the fear they sell on MSNBC? Why do they need to start filtering the information we get on the net by acquiring Google - Isn't the arms market saturated already?
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>>This is the scariest thing I've seen since I heard Gen. Boykin has been talking to spirits.