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Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?)
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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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