On Wednesday 05 September 2001 11:16 pm, you wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 September 2001 23:01, Rick Sivernell wrote:
> > I read some of this and this must be someones idea of a joke. M$ludge
> > is not that arrougant or just stupid are they<g>
>
> Err... yes and yes. <wry g>
>
> It's hard and requires a talent for high farce, but try to put yourself in
> the Redmond mindset - think like Fuzzy Allchin or Thickasa Bollard:
>
> - It is Microsoft's Constitutional right and God-given destiny to dominate
> the computer industry... it's the American Way.
>
> - After all, Bill Gates really invented the PC and the whole industry,
> after IBM, Steve Jobs and Texas Instruments screwed it up... so it's "our"
> football and "our" sandbox.
>
> - Why would any one want to use anything else, when it's obviously
> inferior... after all, it isn't Microsoft.
>
> - If you have coded anything to run on a PC, then obviously you are either
> stealing our code, or trespassing on our turf.
>
> - These Linux fanatics are unAmerican, tofu-eating, birkenstock-wearing
> socialist commies who haven't grown up yet. They don't know what the real
> world is - it's Microsoft.
>
> - Businesses that have adopted Linux have been misled by Linux Lies(tm) and
> disinformation spread by a few pony-tailed fuzzy-thinking jobless
> parasites. It's not their fault. It is our mission to educate them so they
> can rejoin the real world and pay licence fees like evgeryone else... after
> all, it's for their own good.
>
> Along a similar vein, Microsoft took out a double page ad in last month's
> Linux magazine - a first ever. When asked by LM why they were doing this,
> Redmond reportedly replied that it finally occured to them that hadn't done
> a good job of explaining to folks that Microsoft really was the best
> software around. As a result, a few businesses such as ISPs had strayed to
> the dark side. Their aim was to set the record straight so these folks
> could return to the fold, thus putting the galaxy back in balance.
Ahhhh, I see. Do you think they will let us return to the fold<g>
cheers
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