[Am-info] Microsoft list?

[Mark Dodel]

In <40A777D9.9080008@3times25.net>, on 05/16/04 at 10:16 AM,
   Geoffrey <esoteric@3times25.net> said:

>I see the Fred Miller Linux list is still going strong.  Why don't you 
>folks this this pathetic thing die.  I return to the archives every now 
>and then in hopes of finding something relevant.  Again, I find Fred 
>owning over 98% of the postings, and of those, 96% are Linux related, 
>not Microsoft.

>What a sad hijacking of a useful list..

Actually I think Fred is doing better these days.  I've bitched about him
in the past and haven't felt the need to do so recently, but maybe I'm
just mellowing in my old age.  His posts are still mostly just URLs but
many of the subjects seem to relate to Microsoft in some way.  Even the
SCO stuff is related to msft since they are bankrolling it. Every once in
a while I even look up a URL he posts.  He does still post stuff that has
no relationship to Microsoft at all though.  Why doesn't someone set him
up as moderator of his own Linux news list?  I run an OS/2 one myself, so
I don't feel the need to post that off topic stuff here.

As to this list my hope (dream perhaps) is that Bush loses in November and
Kerry has the decency and the balls to enforce the anti-trust statutes
rather then suck up the few million bucks Gates can offer in protection in
money and look the other way.  At that point this list could become viable
again.  In the interim what is there to discuss?  m$ can do as it pleases
now.


Mark

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