By these pages, I feel some people have made it their full time occupation
to slander Microsoft. Their energy and resource could have been better spent
doing something original for the open source movement. I feel pity for these
people.
Saptak Sen
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From: Russell McOrmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 1999 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: [ilug-cal] OFF-TOPIC : Microsoft Worth
> On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Saptak Sen wrote:
>
> > given the credit of introducing some very very cool technologies at a
very
> > affordable price like XML support in IE4, MTS, WLBS etc. So, I still
believe
>
> http://www.vcnet.com/bms/departments/notinvented.html
> http://www.vcnet.com/bms/departments/innovation.shtml
>
>
> People need to give Microsoft cretit where it is due, not where it is
> not. They are not a technology company, and they have 'invented' these
> things in about the same way that Caldera 'invented' Linux (IE: They
> bundle other peoples technologies, sometimes if you are lucky putting tiny
> bits of additional manpower on it to improve it).
>
> Microsoft is a marketing and lobbying firm, and as can be seen by the
> fact that they are above the law and able to market such poor products
> that they are extremely good at that.
>
>
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> Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://russell.flora.org/work/>
>
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