LE> Gates : 1 inadequate man. 1 inadequate vision. Many inadequate products

BJ> To me, this seems to be the "Cut down the tall poppy"

LE> You obviously don't understand the issues at stake.

But Lew, some kid barely out of school, still in the 'employ them while
they are young while they know everything' phase does ?  Yeah, right.

LE> I doubt Speed does either.

Doesnt really matter what you doubt Lew, wont change nuffin.

LE> Of course, not everyone who /does/ understand the issues
LE> agrees with my view, but that's not what we're talking about.

Funny, could have sworn it was.

DH> Having been with Brat watching since the original "Most
DH> of you steal your software" marketing pitch - reckon I do.

I doubt it, FAR to prone to believing in conspiracy theorys, running
around and around in ever decreasing circles like a headless chicken
screaming at the top of you lungs about the sky falling. It aint.

BJ> "Hate the fashionable to trash a person/company which is doing well?

DH> What's doing "well" is a sales and public relations arm.

Nope, you cant produce an industrial success like
that with just a sales and PR arm Dave. Cant be done.

DH> What the company is doing amounts to sabotage of EDP on a world
DH> wide scale, with a outcome that makes the Waste Makers into pikers.

Is that right ?  Well Dave, why dont YOU get off your arse, write the OS
which is the salvation of us all, and save us from evil and depravity ?

Coz you CANT Dave, not even IBM themselves can. Nor can Linus Torvalds

DH> "You too can use 10 times too much computer to do your job - your
DH> company can pay for it, don't worry, sucker - Bill needs the sales".

No one holding a gun to your head and making you use
any of it Dave. Or the PC itself for that matter.

LE> I don't know or care about "trashing" other successful
LE> companies. The fact is, this is a very important battle
LE> which Microsoft must not be allowed to win.

Hallelujah Brother, lets have a Jihad, Dave and Lew in front.

LE> It is NOT simply a matter of commercial success,
LE> it has extremely serious implications for the future.

And the salvation of mankind, life as we know
it, for the devil, big ears charley and utopia.

DH> Considering what Microsoft has already done in
DH> the past, that's the understatement of the decade.

Yeah well, you always were prone to hysterics Dave.

You do realise that Lew actually said that he would be happy
to die if he could be sure that MS would die too dont you ?
I just hope he keeps taking the medication myself |-)

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