On Wednesday 05 September 2001 23:01, Rick Sivernell wrote:
>
> I read some of this and this must be someones idea of a joke. M$ludge is
> not that arrougant or just stupid are they<g>
Err... yes and yes. <wry g>
It's hard and requires a talent for high farce, but try to put yourself in
the Redmond mindset - think like Fuzzy Allchin or Thickasa Bollard:
- It is Microsoft's Constitutional right and God-given destiny to dominate
the computer industry... it's the American Way.
- After all, Bill Gates really invented the PC and the whole industry, after
IBM, Steve Jobs and Texas Instruments screwed it up... so it's "our" football
and "our" sandbox.
- Why would any one want to use anything else, when it's obviously
inferior... after all, it isn't Microsoft.
- If you have coded anything to run on a PC, then obviously you are either
stealing our code, or trespassing on our turf.
- These Linux fanatics are unAmerican, tofu-eating, birkenstock-wearing
socialist commies who haven't grown up yet. They don't know what the real
world is - it's Microsoft.
- Businesses that have adopted Linux have been misled by Linux Lies(tm) and
disinformation spread by a few pony-tailed fuzzy-thinking jobless parasites.
It's not their fault. It is our mission to educate them so they can rejoin
the real world and pay licence fees like evgeryone else... after all, it's
for their own good.
Along a similar vein, Microsoft took out a double page ad in last month's
Linux magazine - a first ever. When asked by LM why they were doing this,
Redmond reportedly replied that it finally occured to them that hadn't done a
good job of explaining to folks that Microsoft really was the best software
around. As a result, a few businesses such as ISPs had strayed to the dark
side. Their aim was to set the record straight so these folks could return to
the fold, thus putting the galaxy back in balance.
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burns
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burns
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