Subject: Re: MS targets Linux
From: W.D.McKinney (deem@wdm.com)
Date: Fri Jan 11 2002 - 11:15:55 AKST
For the comic side of this discussion see http://www.thelinuxreview.com/TUX/07/
arthur@corlissfamily.org wrote:
>
> On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Greg Jetter wrote:
>
> > I am still wondering , with this kind of information avaible why the DOJ
> > and the courts look the other way ? It must be nice to be richer than God
> > and buy off everyone that gets in your way.
>
> The DoJ looks the other way because our government just swung to the opposite
> extreme last year. We went from a socialist, anti-capitalist regime to a
> ultra-business-friendly capitalist regime. The little guy isn't going to
> catch a break under either. :-P I say we all start gene-splicing in our
> backyards, and clone some of our founding fathers. Maybe they can stop the
> madness. . .
>
> > MS will never suceed , when the last time you heard of an MS Windows Install
> > fest ? or active user group ? , they have lost the grass roots population ,
> > it the DOJ could break all of those marketing agrrements with OEM's , MS
> > would be history....
>
> I don't think it's that simple. I know all too many MS cheerleaders -- people
> who have been hoodwinked into thinking that being hacked and rebooting daily
> is *normal*, and hence, not MS' fault. I swear, the marketing dept. at MS
> must be half-staffed with vampires. They're always working on some new angle.
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