🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 13 Jan 1997 22:24:16 -0800, Paul Rickard
<ms-bo...@geocities.com> 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. We started The Microsoft

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BWWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! What kind of a looney is this guy? You scared
me for a minute - I thought I saw JACK Rickard in the header. Whew!
Ahem. Sir, you are free to conduct any kind of silly boycott you want,
but your behavior reminds me of the assho^h^h^h^h^h confused
individuals here in the States who burn the American Flag. They seem
to be blissfully unaware of the fact that the reason they CAN burn the
flag is that they live in a country that holds freedom of the
individual to be one of its high ideals. 

You and your friends can go and burn the Microsoft flag - and you'll
be shooting yourself in the foot - a comical vision at best. Microsoft
has set the defacto OS standard for the past 15 years, and we have all
benefited from this standard. The computer industry is much, much
bigger than it would have been without MS - the result of having
DOS/Win available as the standard OS/GUI on the major PC platform. 

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