[mercury-users] Microsoft's financial support

[Samuel Sean Watkins]

> Fergus> On behalf of the Mercury group here at the University of
> Fergus> Melbourne, I would like to take this opportunity to thank
> Fergus> Microsoft for their generous financial support.
> 
> Fergus> I'm afraid that the details of the project remain confidential
> Fergus> at this point, but they will be made public in due course.
> 
> I had thought that something like this could not happen! Well, I had
> hoped, assuming the Mercury group is aware of the Halloween documents,
> Roberto DiCosmo's "CyberSnare" and "Hijacking the World" and some well
> thought out posts concerning licensing/software patents by some group
> members.
> 
> In case you are interested in some recent discovery of their unethical
> behaviour which is illegal even in the US:
> http://www.billparish.com/msftfraudfacts.html


Seconded.  I won't be contributing to Mercury if there are confidential 
negotiations with the evil empire behind the scenes.  It's not such a 
great language that I can't write something better, and free.

Sam
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