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Re: Windows 95 & Microsoft (vs OS/2?) : long but IMHO good! :-)

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From: fmiller
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 00:00
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In <3uchst$k...@selway.umt.edu>, may...@selway.umt.edu (Robert L Maynard) writes:
>In article <3ubfk1$b8_...@jabba.cybernetics.net>,
>Dale Ross <dale...@cybernetics.net> wrote:
>>
>
>....
>
>>No Rob, not 'nuff said. You are clueless on what Plus! is. Plus is not a bug 
>
>"you are clueless on xxxxx"
>
>>fix for Windows 95. This does not qualify as FUD, it is down right not true. 
>                                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>Is this what Team OS/2 has been teaching  you, to not tell the truth? To make 
>
>>things up that sound bad against Windows 95? You are yet another Team OS/2 
>>member out spreading untruths.
>
>Once again we have Dale Ross
>
>a)  telling somebody that he disagrees with that they are clueless, or don't
>	know what they are talking about, simply because they disagree with
>	Dale Ross.
>
>b)  The same old smear job of Team OS/2 :
>	"you don't spout the MS company religion therefor you are a liar".
>	"you advocate OS/2 therefor you are a Team OS/2 fanatic"
>	"you are a liar and and a Team OS/2 Fanatic therefor Team OS/2 is a"
>        "bunch of liars."
>
>c) Dale Ross sets himself up as THE judge of what it true and is not, uses
>	every last synonym for "lie" and "liar" that he can find, but doesn't
>	have the nerve to use "lie" or "liar".
>
>First we had :
>	"OS/2 is dead"
>Then it was :
>	"OS/2 is a niche OS"
>Then it was :
>	"Win95 will sweep OS/2 before it. ( like NT was supposed to )"
>Now it is :
>	"Team OS/2 is ....."
>
>Must be something worrying these people that they need to spend the effort
>to smear Team OS/2.  A trivial group they could just laugh off.

Yes....quite!  It's the same old FUD from Dale that som many of us got tired of 
in FidoNet.  I and many others had enough and put him in the twit list....most
fitting I think.  Thankfully, my reader will allow it here as well.

Fred
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From: fmiller@lightlink.com@lightlink.com
Subject: Re: Windows 95 & Microsoft (vs OS/2?) : long but IMHO good! :-)
Date: 1995/07/17
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