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Re: file location

From Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: file location
Followup-To comp.os.linux.misc
Date 2015-02-03 12:10 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Strider
Message-ID <maqaa0$kbf$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On Tuesday 03 February 2015 11:56, Richard Kettlewell conveyed the 
following to comp.os.linux.misc...

> Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> writes:
>> Richard Kettlewell conveyed the following to comp.os.linux.misc...
>>> Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> writes:
>>>> His name is Dave Cutler, yes, and he more or less copied over the
>>>> VMS kernel code into the NT kernel, but simply renamed the
>>>> functions and
>>>> the variables.  That's why DEC fired him on the spot and sued
>>>> Microsoft, but Gates settled the matter out of court by paying DEC
>>>> a large sum of money and conceding to supporting DEC's Alpha
>>>> processor in NT.
>>> 
>>> As far as I can tell this (intrinsically rather unlikely) claim is
>>> something that ‘Aragorn’ has simply made up.
>>
>> And as far as I myself can tell, I have not made that up at all. 
>> I've heard it from someone ─ actually, multiple people ─ who
>> was(/were) "there".  You, however, are free to believe what you want,
>> including the cleaned up "official version" as posted on Wikipedia.
>>
>> If you want evidence, then I'm sure that lawsuit between DEC and
>> Microsoft will have left traces somewhere, in spite of having been
>> settled out of court eventually.
> 
> So produce some evidence.
> 
> Wait, I already challenged you to do that, [...

Not about this matter, you haven't.  

I do remember that you chose to engage me in a long debate at some point 
in the past, in which you (as always) arrogantly assumed intellectual 
superiority, and I eventually walked out on the debate because of a 
problem with my newsreader ─ it has a bug which refuses to post to 
threads with a long references header.  

I then specifically fired up Pan ─ which I normally don't use and which 
I don't even like ─ to let you know that I was not interested in 
pursuing the debate with you any longer.  You then still persisted 
nevertheless, and I stuck to my word and abstained from replying.

I think that's about as accurate a recount of the events as I can 
muster.

> ...] and we already both know that you can’t.

No, you've got that wrong.  What we both do know ─ albeit that you might 
be in denial about it ─ is that you like (nit)picking whenever I open my 
mouth on Usenet in a group that you are subscribed to as well.  And I'm 
sorry, but I'm not playing that game.

I have reported what several people who were involved at the time have 
told me.  If you have a problem believing that, but you do want to know 
the truth, then you can simply Google it yourself.  Given that you don't 
wish to Google it, it must thus be something which potentially threatens 
a belief system you have, and I'm sorry, but I've already done more than 
my share at getting people to think for themselves instead of accepting 
dogma, so I know that arguing with those who refuse to use their brain 
and prefer to adhere to dogma is a matter of casting pearls before the 
swine.

Have a nice day, Richard.  Google is your friend.

-- 
= Aragorn =

         http://www.linuxcounter.net - registrant #223157

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  Re: file location William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-01-31 00:08 +0000
  Re: file location Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-01-31 00:30 +0000
    Re: file location William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-01-31 00:51 +0000
      Re: file location Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-01-31 09:03 +0000
        Re: file location William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-01-31 18:14 +0000
          Re: file location "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-01-31 19:00 -0500
            Re: file location William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-02-01 05:14 +0000
  Re: file location Zaphod Beeblebrox <none@none.org> - 2015-01-30 20:06 -0600
    Re: file location "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-01-31 18:54 -0500
      Re: file location Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2015-02-01 04:52 +0100
        Re: file location "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-02-02 15:50 -0500
          Re: file location Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2015-02-02 22:05 +0100
          Re: file location Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-02-02 22:29 +0000
            Re: file location "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-02-02 18:05 -0500
        Re: file location Chick Tower <c.tower@deadspam.com> - 2015-02-03 01:38 +0000
          Re: file location Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2015-02-03 02:54 +0100
            Re: file location Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-02-03 09:04 +0000
              Re: file location Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2015-02-03 11:27 +0100
                Re: file location Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-02-03 10:56 +0000
                Re: file location Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2015-02-03 12:10 +0100
                Re: file location Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-02-03 18:39 +0000
                Re: file location Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2015-02-04 01:51 +0100
                Re: file location Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-02-04 09:19 +0000
              Re: file location The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-02-03 12:21 +0000
                Re: file location Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-02-03 12:57 +0000
                Re: file location William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-02-03 16:58 +0000
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                Re: file location The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-02-03 18:21 +0000
                Re: file location William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-02-04 01:11 +0000
                Re: file location The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-02-04 10:24 +0000
                Re: file location William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-02-04 23:19 +0000
                Re: file location Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2015-02-05 00:34 +0100
                Re: file location William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-02-04 01:08 +0000
                Re: file location The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-02-03 17:20 +0000
            Re: file location "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-02-03 14:47 -0500
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