Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101300219100.1322-100000@fd0man.accesstoledo.com>
By author:    "Michael B. Trausch" <fd0man@crosswinds.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Thunder from the hill wrote:
> >
> > > Don't they understand that Linux is actually a system that is growing to
> > > be very popular?
> >
> > That's why they ignore and don't support it.
> > 
> 
> Are you saying that they *don't* want it to become popular?  C'mon,
> support for the OS would be *wonderful* from a commercial
> standard.  Someone calls in and says "this isn't working..." and they can
> say (if it happens to be a bug of some sort), "Well, yes, this was fixed a
> few hours ago and here's where you can get the patch."  :-)
> 

He's keeping in mind who owns Hotmail.  However, I think that's unfair
to the Hotmail guys; all the ones I have ever spoken with have been
very professional and genuinely concerned with standards compliance.

	-hpa
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