Flowers Galore

Also, IBM was still big on mainframes and PCs, and OS/2 of course, and hadn’t really that much interest in Netware or Windows then (outsourcing deals aside). Apple was even way farther away from that, completely on their own OS and Appletalk, directories were not really useful for their users then.

Netware 4 was utter garbage. It was horribly buggy if you got it to install. Admins hated it, and then win2k peeped around the corner.

You mean Novell royally fucked up Netware and people went to AD at first because of that. But yes, AD was quite new then, mostly an add-on for NT domains (and still sort of is :) try going full kerberos…).

You are of course correct, except that age is no guarantee for understanding the situation; however, I don’t think OpenAI was sitting on all this juicy data and not thinking about violating any privacy in exchange for some much needed hard cash.

Ah fresh rich people toy tech to burn and pollute the planet, that’ll cause more social damage and soulless, apathetic depressed people who are going to get entertainment from digitally screaming at others and watching ai slop tv.