Re: And now...., from our unlimited /hutzpah/ department

2002-05-02 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 20:38:55 -0400 Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scribbling feverishly on April 30, Michael Scottaline managed to emit: Look at what Microsoft now has the effrontery to suggest: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25085.html Fer cryin' out loud! I want a

Re: And now...., from our unlimited /hutzpah/ department

2002-05-02 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Wed, 1 May 2002 13:08:01 -0700 Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 1, 2002 08:58 am, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: Well, if you'll believe that M$ software is the best in the world and worth that horrendous price, you'll believe anything they tell you. So it only makes sense

Re: And now...., from our unlimited /hutzpah/ department

2002-05-02 Thread m.w.chang
that's not a true divorse. if your first one found another husband, would you still need to pay her? Kurt Wall wrote: asounds like an evil cult if not marriage... till death we part.. :) Hmmm, I'm not sure if death isn't preferable to the divorce process??? Possibly. I wouldn't care to get

Re: And now...., from our unlimited /hutzpah/ department

2002-05-02 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Check out this one: Tales Of The UneXPected A Windows XP installation brings welcome stability, but legacy software can cause interoperability headaches and require unexpected upgrades for both hardware and software. http://computerworld.com/nlt/1%2C3590%2CNAV47_STO70559_NLTOS%2C00.html And

Re: And now...., from our unlimited /hutzpah/ department

2002-05-01 Thread Kurt Wall
Scribbling feverishly on April 30, Michael Scottaline managed to emit: On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 20:38:55 -0400 Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled intuitively: Fer cryin' out loud! I want a large quantity of whatever substance Microsoft's lawyers are drinking/smoking/snorting/taking. No, wait,

Re: And now...., from our unlimited /hutzpah/ department

2002-05-01 Thread M.W.Chang
asounds like an evil cult if not marriage... till death we part.. :) Michael Scottaline wrote: Look at what Microsoft now has the effrontery to suggest: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25085.html ___ Linux-users mailing list -

Re: And now...., from our unlimited /hutzpah/ department

2002-05-01 Thread M.W.Chang
and I think they were talking about the OEM version only. The retail box version can be purchased separately from hardware. Michael Scottaline wrote: Look at what Microsoft now has the effrontery to suggest: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25085.html

Re: And now...., from our unlimited /hutzpah/ department

2002-05-01 Thread Kurt Wall
Scribbling feverishly on May 01, M.W.Chang managed to emit: asounds like an evil cult if not marriage... till death we part.. :) But at least with marriage, you have the possibility of divorce or annulment. Kurt -- Any father who thinks he's all important should remind himself that this

Re: And now...., from our unlimited /hutzpah/ department

2002-05-01 Thread Gerry Doris
Scribbling feverishly on May 01, M.W.Chang managed to emit: asounds like an evil cult if not marriage... till death we part.. :) But at least with marriage, you have the possibility of divorce or annulment. Kurt -- Any father who thinks he's all important should remind himself that this

Re: And now...., from our unlimited /hutzpah/ department

2002-05-01 Thread Lee
Michael Scottaline wrote: On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 20:38:55 -0400 Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled intuitively: Scribbling feverishly on April 30, Michael Scottaline managed to emit: Look at what Microsoft now has the effrontery to suggest: Snip But compared to these vipers, when it

Re: And now...., from our unlimited /hutzpah/ department

2002-05-01 Thread Ted Ozolins
On May 1, 2002 08:58 am, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: Well, if you'll believe that M$ software is the best in the world and worth that horrendous price, you'll believe anything they tell you. So it only makes sense to keep spouting whatever they want these folks to believe. Oh, and they

Re: And now...., from our unlimited /hutzpah/ department

2002-04-30 Thread David A. Bandel
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 17:38:38 -0400 begin Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: Look at what Microsoft now has the effrontery to suggest: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25085.html Well, _all_ my non-laptop PCs were built by me. Never came with an OS (most disk

Re: And now...., from our unlimited /hutzpah/ department

2002-04-30 Thread Kurt Wall
Scribbling feverishly on April 30, Michael Scottaline managed to emit: Look at what Microsoft now has the effrontery to suggest: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25085.html Fer cryin' out loud! I want a large quantity of whatever substance Microsoft's lawyers are

Re: And now...., from our unlimited /hutzpah/ department

2002-04-30 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 20:38:55 -0400 Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled intuitively: Scribbling feverishly on April 30, Michael Scottaline managed to emit: Look at what Microsoft now has the effrontery to suggest: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25085.html Fer cryin' out loud! I

Re: And now...., from our unlimited /hutzpah/ department

2002-04-30 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 07:23:38PM -0500, David A. Bandel wrote: ... Well, _all_ my non-laptop PCs were built by me. Never came with an OS (most disk drives you just buy off the shelf don't). I don't have anything to prove and neither does whoever takes my Linux PC (unless they install Windoze