____/ [H]omer on Wednesday 31 October 2007 16:02 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
>> How ASP.NET began in Java
>>
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>> | So why did Microsoft deny it? I'm guessing, but maybe the company felt
>> | that "Project Cool" was related to Java in people's minds, and wanted to
>> | emphasise that .NET was 100 per cent Java-free. Any resemblance is purely
>> | coincidental, as novelists like to say.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/30/ukgov_cybercrime_response/
>
> Wrong link?
>
> http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/10/30/asp_net_java_project_cool/
>
> .----
> | "We went to a conference, I think it was in Washington DC or
> | something, and Scott and I were up on stage. He is doing this demo,
> | and he says, 'Here is a directory listing'. And I glance up at the
> | screen, and I see file1.cool, all these .cool files, and we're busy
> | denying that there is anything called Cool, and he has this
> | directory listing.
> |
> | "So I was worried that somebody would see that and put two and two
> | together... but nobody picked up on it. They had asked if they
> | could videotape me to re-broadcast, and I'd said fine, but when I
> | realised that the Cool screenshot was shown, I contacted them and
> | said, 'I can't let you have that videotape', and they sent it back.
> | So it never leaked."
> `----
Oops. Yes, I keep a clipboard stack, so I spew out the wrong output sometimes.
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