Last message from me on this topic but not necessarily on this thread.
I am not scribing to anything.

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From: <[log in to unmask]>
To: "David Poehlman" <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: Re: windows xp like tourist trap, cm says.


as noted before, in some quarters, an automatic appology for any ms
activity, legal or not and of any dubious moral nature can be forgiven;
especially that it has now been given the all covering blessing of the
sacred bottom line in the following post.

Someone thus scribed:

>Not to belabor the point but we could turn it around and just call the
>other guys jealous.  It's long past time to stop throwing stones and
>kiss and make up or drive them out of the market place whatever but
>either side which has it's share of bending the facts to suite is not
>getting us anywhere.  I have been running this os for around a year and
>While it does have its detractions, when you consider What is going on
>and what is going on elsewhere, this is a leap forward in many ways.
Ms
>and fs are not the only companies that seek the highest ground possible
>and surely not the first or the last to eat the dogs in this dog eat
dog
>world.  I don't condone actions but on a smaller scale, most of us as
>human beings do this to survive.  Whether we eat plants or animals or
>something in between, something gets eaten and we do what needs to be
>done from our perspectave to survive and grow stronger.
>Peace!!!
>May gnu rain!!!
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dan Dunfee" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 8:12 AM
>Subject: Re: windows xp like tourist trap, cm says.
>
>
>No, a repeat of the kind of mercenary marketing and product
manipulation
>that got them convicted as a monopoly.  ms wants to control your access
>to
>computing to the exclusion of other software providers, plain and
>simple.  One can always count on a ms apologist spin from certain
>quarters.
>
>Someone thus scribed:
>
>>a bit of an overstatement.
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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