Microsoft vs. Google; hopefully a reasoned debate was Re: [brlug-general] OpenDocument formats?

2005-10-01 Thread Will Hill
I accept your concession that I will have convinced you of a thing if and only if I can convince you of a thing. Which assertion would you like me to "prove"? On Saturday 01 October 2005 11:43 am, John Hebert wrote: > Will, > > I'm not quite sure where to begin to refute your delusory concepti

Microsoft vs. Google; hopefully a reasoned debate was Re: [brlug-general] OpenDocument formats?

2005-10-01 Thread John Hebert
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Microsoft vs. Google; hopefully a reasoned debate was Re: [brlug-general] OpenDocument formats?

2005-10-01 Thread Will Hill
Wow, where to begin? The best evidence of information suppression comes from technical sleuth and court testimony that is old by necessity. Almost everything Microsoft says about itself is a lie designed to convice people that they should trust all of their personal information to Microsoft's

Microsoft vs. Google; hopefully a reasoned debate was Re: [brlug-general] OpenDocument formats?

2005-10-01 Thread John Hebert
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Microsoft vs. Google; hopefully a reasoned debate was Re: [brlug-general] OpenDocument formats?

2005-10-02 Thread John Hebert
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Microsoft vs. Google; hopefully a reasoned debate was Re: [brlug-general] OpenDocument formats?

2005-10-02 Thread Joey Kelly
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Microsoft vs. Google; hopefully a reasoned debate was Re: [brlug-general] OpenDocument formats?

2005-10-03 Thread Brad Bendily
> > Will, what I am doing is not to support Microsoft and its business > > practices; far from it. What I am trying to do is to get you to realize > > that you are an irrational idiot making wild, unsubstantiated assertions > > that actually hurt the FOSS movement more than they help. > > > > I t

Microsoft vs. Google; hopefully a reasoned debate was Re: [brlug-general] OpenDocument formats?

2005-10-03 Thread Dwayne Giardina
> Will, I must say I'm impressed at your ability to stay calm in a debate. > You take a beating sometimes and as far as I can tell never seem to loose > your cool! Brad I must ask you to provide _proof_ of your _assertion_ that Will has actually taken a beating. Or is that simply your _opinion_?

Microsoft vs. Google; hopefully a reasoned debate was Re: [brlug-general] OpenDocument formats?

2005-10-03 Thread John Hebert
ipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20051003/33ed3104/attachment.htm From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Oct 3 17:53:15 2005 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Will Hill) Date: Mon Oct 3 17:52:42 2005 Subject: Microsoft vs. Google; hopefully a reasoned debate was Re: [brlug-general] OpenDocument forma

Microsoft vs. Google; hopefully a reasoned debate was Re: [brlug-general] OpenDocument formats?

2005-10-03 Thread Will Hill
Getting good search results is difficult but handing out bad ones is easy. Microsoft does not have to be a competent search engine maker to rank wintel rags high in their results, or filter articles with the word "freedom". People like Google because, as the Microsoftie in charge of building

Microsoft vs. Google; hopefully a reasoned debate was Re: [brlug-general] OpenDocument formats?

2005-10-03 Thread Joey Kelly
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Microsoft vs. Google; hopefully a reasoned debate was Re: [brlug-general] OpenDocument formats?

2005-10-01 Thread John Hebert
ervices suite? > > ___________________ > General mailing list > General@brlug.net > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20051001/db3f2b94/attachment.htm From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Oct 1 12:04:18 2005 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brad Bendily) Date: Sat Oct 1 12:03:43 2005 Subject: Microsoft vs. Google; hopefully a reasoned debate was Re: [brlug-general] OpenDocument formats? In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Q: Can you be reasoned with? > Apparently, from his previous posts, he cannot. ;) BB