[Klug-general] CLI command

Stuart Buckland stuart at nightime.org.uk
Fri Feb 1 21:00:40 GMT 2008


A large portion of the $44.6bn Microsoft offered was in stock rather
than cash so they won't be going broke just yet :(

Also at this stage it's an unsolicited offer, although you wouldn't know
that after reading some of the press articles.  I'm not expecting Yahoo
to accept the offer but stranger things have happened and in my opinion
they have offered grossly over the current market value.  So who knows.

Stu


On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 19:37 +0000, Karl Lattimer wrote:
> > After all - you never know where the Other Operating System 
> > might creep in do you?
> 
> which one?
> 
> I've only ever seen it say sunos, solaris, irix, aix, and linux etc...? 
> 
> Windows doesn't have a uname command, I believe the etymology of it
> comes from "UNIX name" ;) I would be scared if MS included one, it would
> be like WTF day no.2, because it looks like MS are about to spend all
> their cash in the bank on yahoo (apparently they have about $50bn in
> actual money, and they're buying yahoo for something like $44bn), making
> them almost broke-ish but betting on beating google... So WTF day seems
> to be today, welcome to the twilight zone.
> 
> Little known factoid of nonsense: the unix commands mv, cp etc... the
> two letter commands are two letters because they only took up 2 ascii
> bytes and could fit nicely into the processor registers (16bit) :)
> 
> K,
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