[Am-info] [Fwd: [ale] M$ lobying]

[Steve Cohen]

I have to say, Paul, that your acronym could be improved.  More than once I've seen "MSBC", thought "MSNBC" and thought, who is this Microsoft flunky? -- Oh, no, wait, that's Paul. Probably too late now, but in hindsight, I'd have called your thing the Boycott Microsoft Committee - BMSC.  Ah well.
 
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On Tue, 13 Jun 2000 13:06:06   Paul Rickard wrote:
>====== On 06.13.2000 12:38 PM, Wandered Inn typed: =======
>
>>> >Got any job openings??
>>> 
>>>     Sure, if you'll work for peanuts.. (That figure added the $11 million
>>> quoted in the earlier aticle to what the site cost - that's certainly not
>>> MY total spending. Sorry if I confused anyone)
>>
>>Poorly intended humor.  I assumed the math, but still, you've probably
>>spent more than most in this effort.
>
>    I'd estimate the costs over a three year period are under $1000 
>total, mostly for Web hosting and the msboycott.com domain (Yahoo! gave 
>me a free one this week to replace msbc.simplenet.com, so now I also have 
>ms-bc.com). I've made a bit of it back, but overall still in the hole. It 
>still loses less than Amazon.com and CDNow, so I'm happy with it.. All I 
>need now is an IPO.
>
>
>
>======== Paul Rickard, Editor of The Microsoft Boycott Campaign =======
>--------------------------------[ Http://www.msboycott.com ]-----------
>
>  "We have no intention of shipping another bloated OS and shoving it
>   down the throats of our users."
>       -Paul Maritz, former Microsoft Vice President
>
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