[nylug-talk] Trend Micro sues Barracuda over ClamAV

[Ron Guerin]

Gregg Levine wrote:
> On Feb 1, 2008 10:49 AM, Ron Guerin <ron at vnetworx.net> wrote:
>> Ajai Khattri wrote:
>>> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, [utf-8] Zach Stern wrote:
>>>
>>>> So therefore, if you were in IT (you may be, I have no idea),
>>> Sure, I was in IT, probably long before you (hell, I was probably
>>> programming before your parents even met :-)
>>> I also believe that as more people are exposed to alternatives from home
>>> or college, that alternative IT setups will become more common. We're
>>> already seeing it happen.
>> I'm older than both of you, so I'm more inclined to use a circular word
>> like *cycle*.  I remember the IT world before Microsoft destroyed
>> competition and innovation, so what I see in the pipe now looks more
>> like a return to a better past than a new uncharted future.
>>
>> And now I pass this off to someone older than me.

> How much older do you want Ron? I've been programming, and building
> computer related hardware for the past twenty or so years. (Apple 2+
> and Apple 2e, and then the PC. Probably the only individual left who
> can tell you why an annoyed Apple beeps and displays his registers
> when angry.)

Probably a bit older than you then.  I wrote my first code about 26 
years ago.

> I should also mention that this discussion is rapidly becoming the
> typical NYLUG discussion, we should agree to disagree and resume it in
> person later this month.

Well, I continue to find things about it interesting, but it does seem 
to be a social discussion as much as anything else, and I certainly 
don't object if people want to take this up over on 
nylug-social at nylug.org  People have been complaining about this list for 
almost 10 years now, but we must be doing something right because 
there's close to 500 people on it.  Honestly though, this isn't the only 
LUG list I'm on, and I think ours is much like everyone else's, except 
this one is ours.

- Ron