Re: Boycott Microsoft

[James Stafford <jamess@cts.com>]

G. J. Greetan wrote:
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> Hello:
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> >Why is it that under other circumstances nobody trusts the government
> >because they are crooked and anything they do is self serving but when the
> >government is talking about suing a large corporation then the government
> is
> >right and the corporation is crooked and self serving? Don't take me wrong,
> >I have no great love for MS or some of it's practices but please do stay on
> >the same side of the fence for all arguments and not hop from side to side
> >as oppurtunity presents itself.
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>     Because Americans love it when the guy who is #1 gets kicked around,
> abused, and destroyed.  They resent Bill Gates because he earns a lot of
> $$$, and they resent MS because the company has been a smashing success.
> The fact of the matter is that these dolts who have been attacking MS
> incessantly, would rather have Janet Reno in charge of  the computer
> industry rather than the free market.  I don't think these people have any
> particular love of the government...they just hate MS.  Indeed...it is
> lonely at the top.

Whoa here Mr. M$ profit.  If I want to buy a computer and I don't want
Windoze on it I have to build my own (which is fine because I enjoy
doing so). But when I use the Internet, which is supposed to work on all
computers, and I come across a site that I can't use because I don't use
some inferior OS (hint has 95 in it soon to have 98), then I do think
that it's time for someone to do something. Look at java, supposed to
run on all computers but what does Micro$soft do with it?

I've used Win95 and have found it to be about the worst OS I've ever
used. The way I look at it your buddy Gates is just lucky that he
doesn't have a class action lawsuit against him for the cause of "reset
button finger disorder". If in fact that Windoze were a better OS you
can bet your bottom dollar that I would use it. But this is just not the
case and that's why I hate it, simple as that.

Now please take your M$ apologetics somewhere else.

keep on computin' (but don't force me to have to do it your way),

jamess