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Mitch Pirtle mitch.pirtle-at-gmail.com |nyphp dev/internal group use| 
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>On Apr 1, 2005 4:33 PM, Joseph Crawford <codebowl at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>what's this about the office XP? i'll have to search for that one lol
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>How about www.nyphp.org? Interesting front page, hope it changes back
>tomorrow...
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>-- Mitch, deluged by people not getting the joke (hoping it is a joke too)
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Nothing can top DMOZ becoming Gates Open Directory (G.O.D.) in 2002. 
Nothing. Ever.

"The Gates Open Directory is part of Microsoft's vision to simplify 
copyright on the Internet by buying all copyrighted material," the press 
release said. "Once this goal is achieved Microsoft will be the single 
clearinghouse for all intellectual property, in effect streamlining the 
current legal bureaucracy surrounding patent and copyright suits by 
eliminating the need for costly lawsuits." According to this text Rich 
Skrenta, co-founder of the Open Directory Project, believes that "the 
Gates Open Directory was inevitable, so why fight it?" Bill Gates, 
future owner of all things ownable, concurs: "Resistance is futile."

http://www.pandia.com/sw-2002/11-god.html