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Re: Boycott Microsoft

Subject: Re: Boycott Microsoft
From: rsmits@curmudgeon.bc.ca (Robert Smits)
Date: 1998/05/31
Newsgroups: comp.sys.newton.misc, comp.sys.apple2, alt.windows95, comp.databases.informix, comp.sys.mac.advocacy, comp.databases.oracle.misc, comp.os.ms-windows.apps.financial, microsoft.public.inetserver.iis, microsoft.public.internnet.mail, alt.invest
Organization: The Curmudgeon's Cottage
References: <35587D59.474A@nospam.com> <6jd8ah$cir$1@cdshub.cdc.com> <355A526A.4E21FDFD@delphi.com> <355AE992.E97@t-mobil.de> <01bd7f64$72e661c0$c07498cf@edwint.rauland.com> <355B5FBA.26BE8BAB@swbell.net> <1d9j84p.bh9c0d1tok668N@pppsl451.chicagonet.net> <6ka5vj$8rc$1@gte2.gte.net>

In article <6ka5vj$8rc$1@gte2.gte.net>, arlr@gte.net says...


>Microsoft has given us the PC in every home, and desktop.

"Given" us? I paid for all my systems, Mac. And if Microsloth hadn't bullied 
the marketplace, maybe we'd have more choice about which OS to use besides 
Windows95.

I have nothing against Microsoft when they compete fairly in the marketplace 
- and people buy their OS based on which ones work better, or have better 
features,  etc.

I have a lot of resentment when other OSes are locked out by schemes that 
restrict the bundling of other OSes with a computer if the retailer wants to 
also sell Win 95.

And it's bloody criminal the way MS is modifying Java to defeat the very 
basis of Java - that it'll run on any system.

I'll only buy or use MS products if there is no other alternative left.

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