On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Don Delp <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think the Big Lots analogy is pretty fitting, expect Big Lots > usually gives a discount when they sell you other people's stuff. Or > maybe the article was talking about the way Walmart kills local > businesses. > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Jack Coats <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I worked for big oil companies, I hate to degrade them that way. >> I think of Micro$loth as the Dollar Store of software. >> Dollar General is to high in the field to be related to M$ >> >> Howard Coles wrote: >>> Lets not bad mouth Big Lots either. :-D >>> >>> Microsoft is more like an Oil Company than a low price dept. store. >>> They rip you off with bloated prices and low quality product, only >>> with fuel you have to have it, at least with M$ you don't "have" to >>> have it. >>> >>> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Michael Chaney >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Jim Peterson <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> http://tech.yahoo.com/news/infoworld/20081215/tc_infoworld/120220_1 >>>>> >>>>> Microsoft Exec bill Microsoft as the Wal-Mart of software! >>>>> >>>> FLOSS is the Wal-Mart of software. Microsoft is, at best, the Big Lots. >>>> >>>> Michael
that makes sense Wally World does "embrace and extend" the local retailer -- I'm a PC AND I RUN LINUX!!! Bertrand Russell - "Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
