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

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:34:33 -0500, Mike Lalonde
<michaeljlalonde@hotmail.com> wrote:

>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.
>>
At least a few on-line dictionaries seem to think it's spelled just
fine.

>>Maybe it's one of those words like "gruntled", a back-formation by
>>removing a prefix.

[From Latin pervius : per-, through; see per- + via, way; see wegh- in
Indo-European Roots.]

> 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

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