[Klug-general] CLI command

George Prowse cokehabit at gmail.com
Fri Feb 1 21:37:43 GMT 2008


Stuart Buckland wrote:
> 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,

They made an offer, the people can have cash *or* stock



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