Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 21:55:31 -0400 From: "Jason" <kib@poboxes.com> To: "Dan Janowski" <danj@3skel.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: "Amancio Hasty" <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, "Gary Kline" <kline@tera.tera.com>, "Atipa" <freebsd@atipa.com>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Why we should support Microsoft... Message-ID: <003401bd845b$c219c100$023aa8c0@kib.kib.net>
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Are you serious? It sounds like you are comparing Microsoft and Bill Gates to the next Hitler! Next I suppose your going to tell us that Bill Gates is the one behind all these government conspiracies and killed JFK. You've been reading that book "on a pale horse" too much :) A friend of mine was like that.....always seeing some undercover secret plot in everything....learned early on not to watch the news with him :) Jason -----Original Message----- From: Dan Janowski <danj@3skel.com> To: Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>; Gary Kline <kline@tera.tera.com>; Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com>; freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Wednesday, May 20, 1998 7:49 PM Subject: Re: Why we should support Microsoft... >The problem here is not what Microsoft has been able to >take advantage of in the past. In nature and economics >voids are filled, usually by the opportunistic. > >We may deserve to be here, but I don't. Neither do >the millions of people who had mostly nothing to >do with the root of the problem. Yes, strategy and >corporate stupidity of the past is to blame. > >Now that the world has become computerized and >networked as it is, people and entities that didn't >realize what this all meant are waking up to reality. > >You can't damn a civilization to eternal suffering >because the computer industry of the 80's and >early 90's was too stupid to know what was going on. > >When these things happen, the government, and the law, >is the last stop on the road to damnation. It may be >synthetic, but we have to make some opportunity to >move on to a better world of computing. > >All the great monopolies of the past took their opportunities, >made lots of money and cemented a strangle hold in >their industries. This is no different. > >Dan > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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