Hic un message que appareva in AUXLANG...
disaffortunatemente il pare que Le Quasi-Omni-Potente
Microsoft ha intentiones de explorar un altere campo
del mercato... :-)))

Amicomicalmente,
Jay B.
----- Original Message -----
De: Robin Turner <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 1:50 PM
Subject: spoof - no legal action please!


>[FWD]
>Subject: International Auxiliary Languages
>Date: Wed, 10 Feb, 1999 20:40
>From: [log in to unmask]
>Organization: Microsoft
>To: [log in to unmask]
>CC: [log in to unmask]
>
>NOTE: Delete this on reading.  Remember those Netscape memos.
>
>Although we're doing pretty well on the browser market despite
>all those court cases, we've still got the problem that most net
>traffic is in English.  I mean, we go to all that trouble to put
>weird fonts on IE, and nobody writes anything in the d***
>language.  Anyway, the other day I found this list called
>AUXLANG, full of no-hopers trying to push their own ideas for a
>world language, and in fact one of them actually said they should
>get, dig this, _Bill Gates_ to put some money behind the idea.
>
>Well, this got me thinking.  I think there's a lot of potential
>here, and have come up with the following market plan.
>
>1.  Contact all these language nuts (through a 3d party) and
>convince them that to stop people messing around with their
>language, they should make sure it's copyrighted.
>
>2.  Approach them with promises of funding and internet
>publicity, and buy up all the copyrights.
>
>3.  Take all the languages and lump them together.
>Incompatibility shouldn't be a problem - after all, it never did
>Windows any harm.
>
>4.  Put all Windows help screens etc. in the new language to
>force people to learn it.  If that sounds too unpopular, keep the
>old ones, but put in a "bug" to make sure that sometimes the new
>one comes up "by mistake".  Bring out some cool multimedia
>teaching packs.
>
>5.  A few years later, make some changes to the language, so
>people have to buy the update.  Swapping round some of the
>suffixes would be a good laugh.
>
>BTW, in public, don't say anything positive about these kooky
>languages, or those ***** LINUX guys will get onto it.
>
>
>;-)
>
>Bill
>