From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 20 18:55:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA18401 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 18:55:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vixa.voyager.net (vixa.voyager.net [198.109.136.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA18319 for ; Wed, 20 May 1998 18:54:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kib@poboxes.com) Received: from kib ([209.153.178.194]) by vixa.voyager.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA16056; Wed, 20 May 1998 21:52:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <003401bd845b$c219c100$023aa8c0@kib.kib.net> Reply-To: "Jason" From: "Jason" To: "Dan Janowski" , "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: "Amancio Hasty" , "Gary Kline" , "Atipa" , Subject: Re: Why we should support Microsoft... Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 21:55:31 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To: Jordan K. Hubbard Cc: Amancio Hasty ; Gary Kline ; Atipa ; 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