Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 01 Jul 2001 16:25:30 -0400 | From | Adam Schrotenboer <> | Subject | Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU! |
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Paul Mundt wrote:
>On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 01:35:24PM -0400, Adam Schrotenboer wrote: > >>So as a user you are free to not use M$ products. >>What if you are IT. Then you do not have a choice. >> >You always have a choice, work elsewhere. If you're in a position where you're >working with MS products, you were the one who made the decision to do so. >MS is not at fault, claiming so is childish. > >>When Win95 came out, I finally got to hate M$. Then I discovered Linux >>and now I have a great dislike for M$ and their products. >> >This makes absolutely no sense. You didn't have a problem with MS originally, >but as soon as Win95 came out you instantly hated them? A few issues with an >OS are hardly valid grounds for "hating" a company. > A few issues, yeah right. I have had many problems. Much of my hatred has to do with their bundling.
> >Also, I don't see how once you discovered Linux your hatred for MS grew. This >also makes very little sense. If you were sitting there using MS products of >your own accord, discovered a new system, and then migrated to the other >system, that's hardly a reason to demand the head of Gates because you somehow >feel you are being "forced" (of your own accord) to use their products. > It didn't grow b/c of that. Never assume.
> >Get real, look at all the moronic things that various linux distributions do. >Is this a reason to hate linux and demand the head of Linus as compensation >for your troubles? > >This kind of attitude, and you wonder why MS attacks linux. > Why would that make MS afraid of Linux. It should simply make them ignore them (b/c presumably this would make Linux harmless)
> > >>I appreciate that as a user you may have a choice. As a tech or MIS/IT, >>I don't have a choice. As such I believe that I have been "damaged" by M$. >> >Oh please, next you'll be blaming world hunger on MS because third world >countries can't afford licenses of win2k. > There's always theft too, but that's beside the point. Actually, maybe M$ causes world hunger because its tools for management are crap, or maybe BillGates is a Habbalite. (xref In Nomine).
> >Regards, >
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