On Thu, 6 Sep 2001 00:16:52 -0400
burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted:
<snip>
> 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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Oooohhhhhh!! Now I get it!!! Thanks for `splaining it to us Burns. ;o)
Mike
--
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal
lobotomy."
--Tom Waits
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