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[50.243.4.3]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id p71sm6796591ioe.33.2016.11.20.11.48.20 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 20 Nov 2016 11:48:20 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Microsoft announced it is joining The Linux Foundation? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20161118113224.20964d7d.freebsd@edvax.de> <747a871c-4d34-7c06-0c04-4650f31bb6ce@FreeBSD.org> <14047.128.135.52.6.1479482907.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> <20161118165549.408e9a9f@archlinux.localdomain> <86zikv5mqu.fsf@WorkBox.homestead.org> From: jd1008 Message-ID: <5831FE03.2030207@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 12:48:19 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 19:48:22 -0000 Dale!!! You spoke my mind :) :) :) I smell a rat in this deal. CONTROL is MS's ultimate goal. On 11/20/2016 12:40 PM, Dale Scott wrote: >> On Nov 19, 2016, at 11:16 AM, Brandon J. Wandersee wrote: >> >> Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions writes: >> >>> Conspiracy theories are stupid. >> fritter away weeks of precious mental effort trying >> to figure out how it all fit into the grand Microsoft World Domination >> Plot. > I think many people have trouble accepting that coincidence, happenstance, momentum and happy accidents determine the course of history at least as much as secret behind the scenes planning. > > --- > Dale R. Scott, P.Eng. > Transparency with Trust > Blog: http://www.dalescott.net > LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/dalescott > GitHub: https://github.com/dalers > >> On Nov 19, 2016, at 11:16 AM, Brandon J. Wandersee wrote: >> >> >> Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions writes: >> >>> Conspiracy theories are stupid. >> Indeed. But this thread is just another example of how these things >> always go. Satya Nadella could burn every inch of Redmond to ashes, >> bequeath his personal fortune to HIV research and then hang himself, and >> people would still fritter away weeks of precious mental effort trying >> to figure out how it all fit into the grand Microsoft World Domination >> Plot. Eventually they'd just conclude that Nadella actually didn't >> really do any of it, but was in reality set up by the NSA in conjunction >> with Google. >> >> The Internet is one big bullshit farm. That's about the only substantive >> thing anyone can say in discussions like this. >> >> -- >> :: Brandon J. Wandersee >> :: brandon.wandersee@gmail.com >> :: -------------------------------------------------- >> :: 'The best design is as little design as possible.' >> :: --- Dieter Rams ---------------------------------- >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >