[LINK] Re: your mail

[Rik Harris]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 11:26:57AM +1100, link-owner@web.anu.edu.au wrote:
> >Tony Barry wrote:
> >>  Bugbear runs rampant in Australian parliament
> >>  The bugbear virus is causing havoc for the second time in a month at
> >>  the Australian Parliament House in Canberra, interrupting the
> >>  government's operations and highlighting dangerous security flaws.
> >>    <http://cgi.zdnet.com/slink?188630 >Read Full Story
> 
> Rick Welykochy <rick@praxis.com.au>:
> >And once again, no mention of the culprit operating system.
> 
> I don't know about *your* browser, but mine shows an ad for the MS 
> 2000 Small Business Server, which has a picture of an animal saying 
> "Click here to see how Microsoft can put some BITE into your network".
> 
> Now to you it might look like a dog;  but to me it looks like a Bugbear ...

Sun ran a campaign a long time ago with a Greater Swiss Mountain Dog
named "Network" as a mascot.  Rumour has it that the campaign was
unceremoniously pulled because they didn't like the thought that their
"network" might "run like a dog".  (I've still got a stuffed toy Network
somewhere).

Interestingly, while
http://www.sun.com/corporateoverview/ceo/mgt-network.html still shows
Network's bio as a member of the corporate management team, he's not
shown in the top-level http://www.sun.com/corporateoverview/ceo/index.html

Have MS fallen into the same trap?  ;-)

rik.
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