Article:		The Next 50 Years of Computer Security: An Interview with Alan Cox
Subject:		Could just be me...
Date:		2005-09-13 15:20:14
From:		jcarr@linuxmachines.com
but I had trouble reading this article with the advertising flashing away yelling at me that I need microcrap visual studio today and I should download it right now onto my debian linux box. Boy, I can't wait! In this article of all things; an interview with Alan. It's embarrassing. You can bet f&*^ing microsoft isn't running IBM Linux adds on their sites. I'd expect smarter targeted advertising from O'reilly at this point!

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• Could just be me...
  2005-09-15 09:11:36  xilch [Reply | View]
  
  
  You are missing a huge idea here - by clicking on the Microsoft ad you will be a part of transferring wealth from Microsoft to O'Reilly. What could be a better use of a mouse click?!
  
  Even by displaying the ad, O'Reilly is most likely getting paid, so the more Microsoft ads you see on any open source friendly site, the better. I always click on any Microsoft ad I see - I get to help the site make some money from the Microsoft machine and they often lead to an offer from Microsoft to ship me beta sofware for free. This is also a great thing, since I am able to spread Microsoft wealth to whatever shipping agent they are using.
• Could just be me...
  2006-04-25 08:08:05  mengel@users.sourceforge.net [Reply | View]
  
  
  I like the way you think, xilch.
  
  Kind of like an old friend of mine who used to have a pile of bricks and a roll of brown paper to help with business reply mail cards -- wrap a brick in brown paper, attach the business reply mail card, and mail it. It's basically the limit of what weight/size you can send on a business reply thingie, and costs the company something like a buck or two...