Re: Let's unite to destroy Microsoft!

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From: mad... Steve Mading
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 00:00

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Andrew and/or Julie (rot...@bitstream.net) wrote:
: Boo hoo. While I agree that MS has successfully put marketing ahead of 
: quality (what American company hasn't?), only the bleating masses can be 
: blamed. The people buying MS are the same as those buying that little 
: clicky thing that releives pain ON CONTACT! Caveat Emptor; we get what 
: we deserve.

Wrong.  We get what the majority deserves.  It's like voting for
President.  When the bleating majority makes a stupid choice, it
affects more than just those people who were in the dumb majority,
it affects everyone.

Microsoft's dominace is like that.  It doesn't matter that *I*
don't want to use MS orifice.  What matters is that my company
insists on all documents being in MS word or MS excell.  It
doesn't matter whether or not I agree with this policy, I'm
still stuck with it.  This in turn means that I can't run my
preferred OS, Linux, on my PC at work.  (Because MS doesn't
like portable standards, the format of their documents is a
secret.  Therefore people have a hard time importing/exporting
to it from other word processors.)

In the computer world, compatability is *everything*.  When the
majority decides on one particular OS that is closed, I'm stuck
having to deal with it too.

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From: mad...@earth.execpc.com (Steve Mading)
Subject: Re: Let's unite to destroy Microsoft!
Date: 1997/01/20
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