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Re: Microsoft runs early April Fools ad
From: Gerardo Richarte <core.lists.full-disclosure () corest com>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:07:18 -0300
"Richard M. Smith" wrote:
The Advertising Standards Authority of SA (ASA) has ordered that a Microsoft ad implying that its software will bring about the extinction of the hacker is to be pulled for being "unsubstantiated and misleading".
Heh, it's a funny phrase, and beside how capable Microsoft is of fixing their bugs (which I'm not talking about at all), the phrase hides some other sutff in it: On one side, by "Hackers", independently of what "Hacker" means, they are putting a name on a group of people, and saying that they are going to extint this group of people, which not a really happy idea... On the other side, either they will fix the bugs in every software out there, or they are recognizing that they are planning that the only software which will be running any computer out there will be Microsoft's, or at least based or using some Microsoft technology (the technology to extinct hackers). heh, I just thought it was funny gera --- for a personal reply use: gera () corest com _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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