Re: Let's unite to destroy Microsoft!

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From: jco... Jim Cooper
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 00:00

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In article <5bf2tv$7...@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, mur...@nihal.math.uiuc.edu
(Michael L. Murphy) wrote:

> In article <32DB26...@geocities.com> ms-bo...@geocities.com writes:
> >[...]. All we want our members
> >to do is not buy any Microsoft software (note I said buy, if you can get
> >it by 'other means' feel free to do so),
> 
> That's despicable.  In other words, you just hate Microsoft, not their
> products - no, the software Microsoft produces is good enough to use,
> you just don't want to give them the money that you own them.
> 
> If you want your group to have even an ounce of credibility, use only
> Linux (or OS/2) and purchase your software from other companies, and

Does this mean you think Microsoft owns all other OSes?  We're not quite
there, yet.  What about MacOS, Solaris, HPUX, AIX, AmigaDOS, QNX, etc.?

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From: jco...@olympus.net (Jim Cooper)
Subject: Re: Let's unite to destroy Microsoft!
Date: 1997/01/14
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