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Date:      Sat, 1 Dec 2001 09:45:55 +0100
From:      "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>
To:        "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org>
Cc:        "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net>, "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org>, <chat@freebsd.org>, "Eric Melville" <eric@freebsd.org>, "Randall Hamilton" <nitedog@silly.pikachu.org>, "GB Clark II" <gclarkii@vsservices.com>
Subject:   Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?)
Message-ID:  <010d01c17a44$98b491e0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
References:  <000301c17a40$8fc78dc0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>

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Ted writes:

> But they did.

As I said, urban legends die hard.

> Microsoft got in because of luck and because of
> underhanded practices, not ethical management.

The same claim has been made about every company in history that ever reached a
position of leadership.  Some people just resent the fact that other
persons/companies are more competent or successful than they are, and cannot
accept the possibility that the success of the latter could be do to anything
except some sort of cheating.


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