People have been referring to Microsoft as M$ for years, get over it, no one here cares.
On Monday, July 22, 2002 at 10:25AM, Jan Schaumann wrote: >Somebody sent this to me; thought you guys might find it interesting. > >-- >A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely >foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. >Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 23:27:53 -0700 >From: "Eugenia Loli-Queru" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Blackbox web site > >In this page: http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/ you write: >"M$ Windows (all varieties) " >I do not know the problem you might have with Microsoft sir, but this is >down right unprofessional and filthy to reffer to Microsoft as M$, >ESPECIALLY when the project you are developing is actually running on that >platform. It truly takes down your credibility and it makes you look like >one of these OSS zealots who can't see beyond their own nose from zealotry. >I would like to kindly ask you to re-instate the correct name of the >company, as you have done so for all the other companies mentioned in this >very web page. > >Note: I am not a Microsoft assosiate of any kind, neither I have nothing >else to do with them. I am NOT even their fan. My husband lost his job >because of Microsoft. But no matter my personal feelings for them and their >illegal business practices, I do not let these feelings dripping on OSNews. >I run OSNews.com, which is a web site reporting *equally* on *all* OSes, OSS >or not. I try to be objective. It really saddens me the behaviour of the >Linux people not being able to deal properly with the Microsoft "issue". If >you want to fight Microsoft for a reason, please do it *intelligently*. I do >not think I, the reader and user of Blackbox, deserved to see such a >behaviour on an OSS site for a project that I use on *both* my Windows and >on my Linux boxes. > >No hurt feelings. > >Thank you, >Eugenia > >--------------------------- >Editor-in-Chief at http://www.OSNews.com >
