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
>>> --
>>> Michael Darrin Chaney, Sr.
>>> [email protected]
>>> http://www.michaelchaney.com/
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> >
>

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