Re: What is the maximal length of usernames on Solaris?

From: Stefaan A Eeckels (tengo_at_DELETEMEecc.lu)
Date: 01/03/04 

Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 22:38:26 +0100

On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 21:10:36 GMT
Josh McKee <jtmckee@rm-bogus-ac.net> wrote:

> Microsoft listened to their customers needs *and* wants and gave them
> both.

Virusses? Word XP crashing on Windows XP Pro? Word XP that no
longer can distinguish between additions and deletions (I've
a couple of translator buddies who're quite upset about this).
Relentless upgrade cycles?

> They made a fortune by doing so.

Your repeating this isn't going to make it true. The reason
they made a lot of money is that they got lucky (or is MS-DOS
another example of "what the customer wanted"?), and that they
used illegal business practices to build a monopoly whilst
riding the coattails of the success of the IBM PC.

> If anything is going to be the
> downfall of Microsoft it's going to be that they're not listening to
> their customers wants.

Like shaking them too hard for license fees now that they've
got them by the short and curlies? 

-- 
Stefaan
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