On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 16:30, will hill wrote: > John Hebert wonders: > > > > Doesn't this mean that Microsoft should be tried for treason? Remember that > > Jim Allchin is the same Microsoft executive who implied that Linux was "<a > > href="http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-4825719- > > RHAT.html?tag=ltnc">un-American</a>". > > > > I think he should get a medal, so long as WE quit using that junk. M$, the > choice of incompetent autocracies everywhere! If they can't compile the code > with their own independently developed compiler, their desktops will be > owned. I wish we could sole source their military hardware and nuclear > facilities too. Have we suckered them into McDonalds yet? Ummm, beefy. > Then I woke up and the fantasy was over. > > "Engagement" has been and will be a failure that only makes our enemies > stronger. Isolation, such as we used to do in the USSR, works much better. > This really is treason but it might also be legal. Boing got into all sorts > of stew over missile guidence systems, which we can be sure found their way > to North Korea, Iraq and all sorts of other nice places. Since then, China > got most favorable nation status. I'm disgusted. >
I'll second that. Shannon > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
