Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!

Ben Ford (ben@kalifornia.com)
Sun, 01 Jul 2001 16:53:25 -0700


Jesse Pollard wrote:

>On Sun, 01 Jul 2001, Jesse Pollard wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 01 Jul 2001, Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote:
>>
>>>I'll just have to decide which I value more. As long as I won't be killed
>>>for using a different OS, I still have a choice.
>>>
>>No, but you might be forced out of a job.
>>
>
>Apologies for the followup to a followup:
>
>You might be if the life monitoring sensors in surgury suddenly need
>to be "registered with MS, or ... will be shutdown..." ;-)
>

Or a BSOD.

This seems to be meant as a joke, but I don't think it's all that unlikely.

I seem to recall that MS products cannot be used in aircraft control
rooms for this reason.

-b

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