Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 14:17:53 -0500 From: GH <grasshacker@linkfast.net> To: "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com> Cc: 'James Howard' <howardjp@glue.umd.edu>, John <papalia@udel.edu>, Haikal Saadh <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A depressing thought.. Message-ID: <20000811141753.A18655@linkfast.net> In-Reply-To: <ABC15E2D8FBCD311B4A200805FA7D59BF32496@1upmc-msx6.isdip.upmc.edu>; from personrp@ccbh.com on Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 08:50:44AM -0400 References: <ABC15E2D8FBCD311B4A200805FA7D59BF32496@1upmc-msx6.isdip.upmc.edu>
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Even better, a perfect explanation for the Microsoft ruling of the world: ``With so many good word processors, it's just not worth it.'' --with regard to learning how to spell correctly. --spewed from the mind and vocals of a 25-year-old male. I regularly give up on making the world a better place. gh On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 08:50:44AM -0400, some silly person named Person, Roderick blurbed out > My favorite told to me by a co-worker, after I told him I only use NT and M$ > stuff at work and since he hate NT and M$ why does he use it at home. > > "Everybody else uses it, so I do too." > > I seem to think, if you have this attitude among people with technical > knowledge that M$ will remain the dominate OS dispute the fact that it > sucks. > > Roderick P. Person > Programmer II > Crystal Administrator > (412)454-2616 > personrp@ccbh.com > > "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, > would it?" > Albert Einstein > > > -----Original Message----- > From: James Howard [mailto:howardjp@glue.umd.edu] > Sent: July 26, 2000 10:06 PM > To: John > Cc: Haikal Saadh; advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: A depressing thought.. > > > On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, John wrote: > > > "Go with NT. After all, it's a Bill Gates World." > > I once heard in a staff meeting, "Microsoft is the world," as the argument > for replacing tried and true OpenVMS systems with WinNT. > > Oh well. > > J~ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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