Re: Microsoft and MACs

[Joe Moore <joemoore@cs.uky.edu>]

On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, stan johnson wrote:

> ** Reply to note from joemoore@cs.uky.edu Wed, 10 Mar 1999 15:46:20 -0500
> > The problem with this approach is that I never click the "register"
> > button on my software products, so M$ would not be able to get
> > personal information from me by this mechanism. 
> 
> And what are you going to do when the "you must register this software
> or it won't work more than [60?] days" program M$ is now trying out
> becomes fully implemented??
I'll keep setting my clock back.  That's what I plan to do with the Y2K
problems on Win95.  I'm not going to install the M$ patches by installing
IE4.

I do all my real work on Linux with LaTeX.  What day M$Word thinks it is
doesn't matter.

--Joe

> 
> There's a growing gulf between the increasingly control-freak proprietary
> software world and the fully open Open Source software world. I know
> where my support, dollars, and sympathies belong. And it's not with the
> likes of M$. I'm not opposed to proprietary software, but I am opposed
> to oppressive, compulsive, paranoid sickies.
> 
> stan
> 
> -- 
> Stan Johnson 
> sjohnson@gwi.net
> 03/10/99 04:11pm
> 


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