Python and IIS

[David LeBlanc]

Ain't monopoly grand if you're the monopolist! MS has bought all or parts of
hundreds of companies (there's an MS watch site somewhere that names them
all), continues with their campus expansion (now with it's own zip code!)
and has, at last report, 36 BILLION in ready cash reserves. And the prices
keep going up.

Oh, did I mention that MS employees only get about 55% of industry norms for
salaries? Of course, they also get stock options which the company gets to
give instead of paying income tax (they avoided 7 billion in federal taxes
last year (reportedly all they owed) by handing out stock options). Too bad
those stock options aren't going to make you a millionaire in 5 years like
they once could, but hey! you've got the cachet of being a Microsoft
employee!

David LeBlanc
Seattle, WA USA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-list-admin at python.org
> [mailto:python-list-admin at python.org]On Behalf Of Steve Holden
> Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 14:17
> To: Tim Churches
> Cc: python-list at python.org
> Subject: Re: Python and IIS
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim Churches" <tchur at optushome.com.au>
> To: "Steve Holden" <sholden at holdenweb.com>
> Cc: <python-list at python.org>
> Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 4:16 PM
> Subject: Re: Python and IIS
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> > "Robert Plant" <robert.plant at clara.co.uk> wrote in message
> >
> > > I would like to configure IIS 5 to use python cgi scripts.
> >
> > Somewhat related to this: a few weeks ago I took the time to read the
> > license for Windows 2000 Server, and was surprised to find that a
> > Client Access License is required for each authenticated user of
> > IIS (or any other Web server, such as Apache?) running on Windows 2000
> > Server. That was (is) not the case with the Windows NT Server license.
> > Details at
> > http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/server/howtobuy/pricing/changes.asp
> >
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> All this merely serves to highlight the fact, familiar to anyone who has
> been an Intel customer over the past twenty years, that the price of the
> product is now completely unrelated to any costs associated with
> production.
>
> I'm continually amazed that customers don't object to this
> "charge what the
> market will bear" pricing.
>
> regards
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