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Re: Let's unite to destroy Microsoft!

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From: Jeff Combs
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 00:00
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David Quist wrote:
> 
> >
> > My friends and I are tired of Microsoft's illegal chokehold on the
> > computer industry, and we damn well don't want to see that move into the
> > other businesses MS is trying to take over.
> 
> I would absolutely LOVE to see and hear your evidence which bring you to
> this conclusion. Microsoft has traveled a bitter and bumpy road to get
> where they are today, and granted there may have been some wrong doings
> of their employees over the past decade and a half, but the game the
> company has played has been fair. If you are going to accuse Microsoft
> of a 'chokehold' you really need to pull your head out of your ass.
> Let's see, how many companies have expanded the world over traveling a
> similar path? I can see just about every major defense contractor on
> that list, of which many manufacture commercial products, such as Boeing
> Inc. And let's not also forget IBM! What the hell kind of servers and
> mainframes do you think that most telcos run as PBX's? Aside from all
> usual courtesy, I'm just going to come right out and call you a dumbass.
> %100 stupid. Get off this newsgroup if you're going to post shit like
> this.
> 
> >We started The Microsoft
> > Boycott Campaign to stop Bill Gates and his minions in their tracks, and
> > we need as many members as possible to do that. All we want our members
> > to do is not buy any Microsoft software (note I said buy, if you can get
> 
> And also, somewhere along this line, you actually USED a microsoft
> product. I'm sorry, so you are going to limit your users from OS's also?
> DOS & Win 3.x, Win95, and WinNT. Sorry, would give you a shit's worth of
> attention more than this message.
> 
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> David Quist
> Webmaster,
> The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
> http://www.umass.edu/rso/colegian
> 
> E-Mail: dqu...@student.umass.edu
> WWW:    http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~dquist
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English major, Dave?

Jeff
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Subject: Re: Let's unite to destroy Microsoft!
Date: 1997/01/16
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