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Re: Let's unite to destroy Microsoft!

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From: der... Derick Siddoway
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 00:00
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In a lucid moment, Max Mansour babbled:

>In your answer below, you forgot to mention the main reason.  Most software
>Microsoft produces is quite good, if not great.

This is subjective.  If it does what you want it to do, you'll probably rate
it as "quite good."  If it doesn't, you don't.  

>Your logic (below) does not provide an answer as to why the #1 selling word
>processor for MacOS is MS Word. 

I still believe that this is a cycle.  Most offices have standardized on
Microsoft Word because it has a majority of the market.   The reason it has
the majority of the market is because most offices have standardized on
Microsoft Word.  It has nothing to do with quality.  If it did, we'd all
still be running WordPerfect 5.1, which did everything it said it could. 
Can't say that about most of the drek out there now.

-- 
Derick Siddoway         Micro$oft: A bunch of mindless, Pepsi-drinking
Computer Flunky         jerks who price-gouge totalitarian governments, 
University Hospital     and who will be the first against the wall when 
University of Utah      the revolution comes.  (Mark Stapleton in asr)
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From: der...@valinor.med.utah.edu (Derick Siddoway)
Subject: Re: Let's unite to destroy Microsoft!
Date: 1997/01/31
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