At 10:45 PM 2/2/03 -0500, Wall, Kurt wrote:
Yeah, it's OT. It rings true, however. % If Microsoft had been the first to invent books:We'd all be illiterate. % 1. Before you can open the cover of your new book, you must obtain % a book activation code by phoning Microsoft. % 2. Sorry, only one person may ever read your book. % 3. It's full of spelling mistakes and typos. % 4. When you're reading your book, the type can mysteriously disappear. % 5. Libraries, which are for sharing books, are illegal. % 6. You must acknowledge you have read and understood the Book License % Agreement Hype (BLAH) before you can read your book. % 7. Microsoft has the right to enter your premises to conduct book % inspections to make sure your book is being read in accordance with % the BLAH. % 8. The Book Users' Group General Alliance (BUGGA) calculates that the % annual loss of revenues to Microsoft arising from BLAH violations % in 2001 was $10.97 billion. % 9. There are two versions of your book - the "Standard" and the "Pro" % versions. In the standard version, those pages containing the most % useful information have been stuck together. % 10. Confidential information is inexplicably in bigger type that can % be easily read by anyone glancing over your shoulder. Kurt --
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