[Am-info] Microsoft = virus

[Gene Gaines]

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>From time to time, I have been at a loss to characterize the
behavior of Microsoft Corporation and its management.

Today I had a revelation.

Microsoft itself is a virus.

A nasty, ugly, virulent, non-thinking virus which
only knows to destroy, to consume the resources
around it.  It can replicate only by using the
others around it as hosts.

Viruses are typically not considered living organisms.

A simple dictionary definition of "virus" is below.

Gene Gaines
gene.gaines@gainesgroup.com
Sterling, Virginia


vi·rus

Any of various simple submicroscopic parasites of plants, animals,
and bacteria that often cause disease and that consist essentially
of a core of RNA or DNA surrounded by a protein coat. Unable to
replicate without a host cell, viruses are typically not
considered living organisms.

A disease caused by a virus.

Something that poisons one's soul or mind: the pernicious virus of racism.

Computer Science. A computer virus.

[Latin virus, poison.]


Above definition courtesy The American Heritage® Dictionary of the
English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton
Mifflin Company.