🚀 go-pugleaf

Boo hoo. While I agree that MS has successfully put marketing ahead of 
quality (what American company hasn't?), only the bleating masses can be 
blamed. The people buying MS are the same as those buying that little 
clicky thing that releives pain ON CONTACT! Caveat Emptor; we get what 
we deserve.


David Every wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 18 Jan 1997 07:25:51 GMT, Pa...@loofa.net (Sith Lord) wrote:
> > >     Dear Microsoft haters:
> > >Go to msbc.home.ml.org
> > >We already have an excess of 100 members. All skills needed
> 
> Peter Fisher <p.fi...@virgin.net>
> > Jealousy Gets you nowhere
> > Try working hard to build a company,
> > like microsoft and you will find that
> > you make a lot off people jealous of
> > what you have
> 
> I agree... and sometimes resentment is justified.
> 
> Make a company that has no style and copies and steals, and reduces
> productivity and harms the industry (in some cases) and crushes
> competition not through superior products but through FUD, etc... and
> some people take offense.
> 
> Do not get me wrong. MS does do an OK job of some products for a
> while... (Ususally version3 of their products is when they are getting
> the bugs out, and its not yet completely bloated... by 5 or 6 the
> application is often unusably feature ridden).  And they are like most
> large companies - they do GOOD and BAD. But overall MS is the pefect
> example of bad american products that still result in profits.... and
> the MS group-think herd mentality is revolting to people that have an
> ounce of creativity and their features hack are insulting to users
> with a pitance of style or understanding of UI/Graphics Arts/etc.
> 
> MS may be starting to get more resentment than they diserve... just
> maybe... but even if that was true, we are not yet close to making up
> for all the damage they've done (and their bleating followers have
> done) to this industry and our culture. What goes around, comes
> around.... and MS may soon get what they have given so freely.
> --
> David K. Every
> MacKiDo Warrior - The Power of the Macintosh Way!
> --
> ©1997 DKE. Non-exclusive, royalty free license to distribute is
> granted to any service provider except Microsoft. By distributing
> this, Microsoft agrees to pay $1,000 per posting.

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