Re: Reliable software (was Thou shalt have no other gods before theANSI C stand

On 17 Mar 05 13:47:29 -0800, "Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
wrote:

>In article <kLadnRaUAv2FX6TfRVn-iA@comcast.com>, ljelmore_@comcast.net
>(Larry Elmore) writes:
>
>> Brian Inglis wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 01:57:23 GMT in alt.folklore.computers, "Hank
>>> Oredson" <horedson@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Andrew Swallow" <am.swallow@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:d17rjl$chb$1@titan.btinternet.com...
>>>>
>>>>>Trevor L. Jackson, III wrote:
>>>>>[snip]
>>>>>
>>>>>> You left out the most important qualification: "... for a while."
>>>>>> We are already seeing the effects of Microsoft(R)'s behavior,
>>>>>> not in the courts, nor in the behavior of customers, but in the
>>>>>> behavior of potential partners. There are too many carcasses of
>>>>>> pervious Microsoft(R) partners for the potential future partners
>>>>>> to ignore.
>>
>> "pervious". Now there's an interesting misspelling. It sounds somehow
>> apt, though I'd be hard-pressed to explain why.
>
>Maybe it's one of those words like "gruntled", a back-formation by
>removing a prefix. That would make it the antonym of "impervious",
>which is indeed apt if you're thinking of Windows security.
>
>>> I took advantage of a recent motherboard failure to upgrade this PC
>>> to 98SE, which allows me and my family to run a few programs worth
>>> paying something for, without allowing MS to access my system or

We run 98 on our office machines which are used for client data. We've
been doing tax services for 12 years now and haven't had any issues
with 98SE. Probably going to go to 2000 in the upcoming year though :)

Mike Lalonde
Mike and Jennifer Lalonde's Tax Services
782 Lasalle Blvd
Sudbury, Ontario
Canada
Received on Mon May 1 01:53:57 2006