[Am-info] Re: adopting alternative OSes

[Erick Andrews]

On Mon, 28 Apr 2003 18:03:08 -0400, John J. Urbaniak wrote:

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>madodel@ptdprolog.net wrote:
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>> I think what you keep missing is that a company like Apple or Microsoft
>> has pretty much one direction to follow.  Can you imagine a Marketing VP
>> at Apple telling a 10,000+ seat client that they would be better off
>> buying PCs instead of Apples, or someone at Microsoft suggesting that
>> OpenOffice would be a better idea then m$Office?  But that is what
>> happened/happens in IBM.
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>Behavior like this is what convinces me that someone high at IBM took a 
>bribe to promote MS products over his own company's.  It's absolutely 
>unbelievable in any other context.
>
>John

If I had the time and the resources to so some focussed "data mining", 
I think your proposition would be strongly accepted, or proved, even if 
only circumstantial.

After all these years about this "conspiracy theory" I have never heard
a believable argument to the contrary.  Yes, I know it's difficult to prove
a negative, but not impracticable.  Conspiracy theories have become a 
no-no, politically-incorrect, but conspiracies happen.  Anyone who 
adamantly diss's such should be suspect of being in denial, or maybe
worked for Kenneth Lay?

-- 
Erick Andrews