On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 03:18, J. Craig Woods wrote: > Charlie wrote: > > Wassup doc? (I'm sorry but I couldn't resist.) > > What it be like, dude? > > > The responses ranged from; "How much is Microsoft paying them for this > > crap?" from an > aunt of a good friend, to his reply which is unfit > > for quotation on a polite mailing list such as this. :-) > > Who is spreading those fucking rumors about this being a "polite mailing > list"? > :-)
> > BTW did you know that the ZDNet Forum "Computer Help" was; for a very long > > time, the "online support" link for Windows ME? Isn't _that_ just "special?" > > > > ZDNet. Another site that I choose not to open. > > The source of these kinds of attacks on open source are inconsequential. > This was posted so we could be aware of what some groups have as their > agenda. It is very easy to dismiss this as so much propaganda coming > from the likes of Micro$oft. A simple read of history shows us what > dismissive attitudes cost Europe in May of 1940; what they cost the USA > in Dec of 1941, and what they cost her again in Sept of 2001. We may > consider such statements from an "influential think tank" to be just so > much crap but summarily dismiss them at your own peril. I, for one, take > these attacks on the future of open source development as very serious. > Let there be no mistake about it: the barbarians are at the gate. > > drjung > WOO HOO!! The Doc is in the howse!! Good grief, the gems you miss when you are offline. Preach it, DJ ! L8r, LX -- ��������������������������������������������������� Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdk Evolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ ���������������������������������������������������
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