[Am-info] "Bleeding heart" MS again
Erick Andrews
Erick Andrews" <eandrews@star.net
Sun, 24 Mar 2002 17:24:17 -0400 (EDT)
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 17:17:05 -0500, John J. Urbaniak wrote:
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>Erick Andrews wrote:
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>> Microsoft is still pushing their doomsday defense.
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>> http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/083/business/A_world_without_Windows_+.shtml
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>> ...and reading the last two paragraphs the author of this piece
>> seems supportive of MS.
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>Yeah, this seems to be the latest spin, "poor, poor virtuous Microsoft. Stop
>picking on them. Boo-hoo. Sob, sob."
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>Of course, Microsoft had no qualms destroying companies like Novell, Netscape,
>WordPerfect, Lotus and a host of others like my small company. Microsoft didn't
>care how much grief they caused the employees, customers, partners and
>stockholders of all those companies they destroyed. In fact, I bet BabyGates
>celebrated each time a rival, big or small, was crushed out of existence.
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>He'll be celebrating for me soon. We can't hold on much longer.
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>John
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It's been a long time since I lived it Texas...but I seem to remember:
"Let's giv'em a fair trial and then hang the dirty bastards".
Oh, well. Guess things have "Enron'd" (my coinage) since the '70's.
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Erick