RE: RE: dumping microsoft desktop?

2002-11-15 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Title: RE: RE: dumping microsoft desktop? Mladen, Actually the Boston Tea Party happened for the opposite reason. The tea on the ships was of LOWER price because it was not taxed. The 'patriots' owned tons of tea stored in warehouses that they could only sell at a profit with higher prices

RE: RE: dumping microsoft desktop?

2002-11-15 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
that can't be bought out or voted in (like the anti-trust case). -Original Message- From: Gogala, Mladen [mailto:MGogala;oxhp.com] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 3:39 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: RE: dumping microsoft desktop? Well, once upon a time

Re: RE: RE: dumping microsoft desktop?

2002-11-15 Thread Ray Stell
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 05:59:06AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OH, talk about cruel and unusual punishment!! For the fish that is. It is interesting that so many people feel this way and yet the topic is reduced to joking, as if it is not possible (or really desirable) to replace

Re[2]: RE: RE: dumping microsoft desktop?

2002-11-15 Thread dgoulet
Ray, Sometimes humor is the best medecine when one feels powerless. I for one would love to dump this M$ desktop infavor of a Lindows or Linux desktop. But we all have to suffer with the lack of applications that support those platforms. Hopefully in a couple of years, now that Lindows is

RE: RE: dumping microsoft desktop?

2002-11-14 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Well, once upon a time there was an event called Boston Tea Party which dealt with too expensive product of low quality delivered by a monopoly. I wonder whether we can expect Seattle Windows Party? Would that be too cruel to the fish in Seattle harbor? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: RE: dumping microsoft desktop?

2002-11-14 Thread David . Schmoldt
: Gogala, Mladen [mailto:MGogala;oxhp.com] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 3:39 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: RE: dumping microsoft desktop? Well, once upon a time there was an event called Boston Tea Party which dealt with too expensive product of low quality