May 23, 2002 01:35 pm,shane wrote: > i think we all look at recent events. in the last little while, MS has > been found guilty of abuse of a monopoly, is in court again with taiwan, > and the EU, and has been convicted of piracy. they lost their "lindows" > suit, and their "most secure OS ever" has proven easy to hack. they > threatened audits for schools in oregon and iowa, and not only did the > oregon schools stand firm till MS backed down, but according to one report > (haven't confirmed this) 16 of the school districts in iowa dumped windows > for a linux network. peru, germany, china, and other countries are > suddenly pushing _any_ OSS solution. now the pentegon? > > it has been a rough year for MS. i feel bad. i might remove my anti-MS > sig files....... > > and i might start using XP too. if they hold a gun to my head. -- "...so Mr. Gates, in short, the reason I am not using your software is that I have upped my standards. So up yours." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ That has to be one of the funniest signature tags yet Shane. You are a total bad influence, incorrigible, irrepressible and relentless with your cheap shots at poor innocent billyg/microsoft!
You're also now officially one of my heroes. :-) BTW; don't read anything into the sig tag below, it's a proven fact that this machine is haunted (or at least Fortune must be) and the phantom it contains has an even more twisted sense of humor than mine. <large evil grin> -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org "I'd love to go out with you, but I'm staying home to work on my cottage cheese sculpture."
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