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Article #66626Re: Let's unite to destroy Microsoft!
From: Jeff Combs
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 00:00
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. > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------- English major, Dave? Jeff -- ___________________________ Jeff Combs home - je...@jersey.net work - jco...@motown.lmco.com ___________________________
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From: Jeff Combs <je...@jersey.net> Subject: Re: Let's unite to destroy Microsoft! Date: 1997/01/16 Message-ID: <32DEBD6C.394B@jersey.net> X-Deja-AN: 210297361 references: <32DB2690.3533@geocities.com> <32DBDCD4.2C3@student.umass.edu> organization: InterActive Network - Serving SNJ - SLIP/PPP/SHELL mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: je...@jersey.net newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,alt.fan.bill-gates,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.acorn.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt,comp.os.linux.network,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games,comp.security.misc,rec.aviation.simulators,comp.sys.palmtops,alt.2600, x-mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit