Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 13:22:01 -0700 From: Studded <Studded@dal.net> To: drifter@stratos.net Cc: Matthew Cashdollar <mattc@rfcnet.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: commercial software Message-ID: <355CA3E9.393ACBD9@dal.net> References: <199805151620.MAA18556@stratos.net>
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drifter@stratos.net wrote: > > On Fri, 15 May 1998 08:32:38 CDT, Matthew Cashdollar wrote: > > [ I (drifter@stratos.nospam.net) wrote: ] > >> Of course, Bill Gates is no Henry Ford. (And don't tell me computers > >> give you more freedom than automobiles... I happened to be old-fashioned > >> in this regard.) > > > >I certainly hope Bill Gates is no Henry Ford. Henry Ford was a supporter of > >Nazism! He kept a picture of Adolf Hitler on his desk and sent Hitler a > >birthday card every year!! > > > >(I'm not joking..) > > Oh, boy. Looks like Godwin's Law is being invoked. (The one that > says that within three days of any post to USENET, the likelihood > of comparisons to Nazis will approach 1... Actually that's the corrolary. :) The actual Godwin rule is that the first person to invoke a comparison to nazi's loses the argument by definition. This was one of my favorite parts of the "old" usenet because judicious use of the Godwin rule could drive the particularly lame flamers into a frenzy due to their carefully written analogies to nazi germany being completely ignored. :) Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet *** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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