Peter, It sounds like soon windows OS will be free too. I have been in Russia for 3 years and I know Russian People are good cloning exiting products and of course No question on girls no charge and super service not Like here in us you can not even say some one "you look nice" that is sexual abuse but you can watch porno channels no problem and that is not sexual abuse as long as pay for it. Any way I still do not understand what Microsoft is trying to do. Andre -----Original Message----- http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/01/21/russia.microsoft.reut/index.h tml Notice the first paragraph of that article. Imho it is not longer realistic to fear the NSA or some other US organisation can hack into foreign government and private computers based on inside information about that operating system. It is realistic to fear that both of those organizations, and those of Russia (like say, the KGB, or FSB or whatever they call themselves now), can do that from now on, and that a couple of other countries governments will be able to do that too, real soon now. Way to go. Sort of a call to 'open your windows to the world', isn't it ? Peter -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics