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to: Rich Gauszka
from: Gary Wiltshire
date: 2003-02-21 18:22:22
subject: Re: MS same old same old - BANG!

From: Gary Wiltshire 

Indeed, his last paragraph smells like a death threat.

On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 15:14:18 -0500, "Rich Gauszka"
 wrote:

>One can dislike Microsoft all they want. Unfortunately with your postings
>you seem to have  left that realm of dislike to one of paranoia and abject
>hatred. It really is an unhealthy mindset  - this denomination of an
>opponent .  It is a shame as you really  have the ability to be an effective
>spokesman for the "alternative" software movement.
>
>
>"Joe Barr"  wrote in message
>news:3e563bd8$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>
>> The fecal feeding maggots in Redmond never stop, do they.
>>
>> It's not just that they hire spineless lying sacks of shit like Richard
>> Shupak and give them a reason for living.  It's not just that Bill Gates
>> lis lives in the shadow of his own overarching cowardice, or the fact that
>> he has never in his life uttered an honest word.  At least, not on
>> purpose. And it's not that the very best products they have ever produced
>> are no better than mediocre.  Or that most of their crap falls well short
>> of that modest ambition.
>>
>> It's not that the stupidity and arrogance embodied by their ignorance of
>> security and sane software development - including that usually skipped in
>> Redmond phase called design - is costing the IT world billions and
>> billions in patchwork.
>>
>> It's the way the treat their own customers and developers.  Most recently,
>> in the Timeworks fiasco.
>>
>> Someday soon someone - someone as likely to be a customer as a competitor
>> - is going to kill Bill Gates.  Few will mourn him.
>> Most will wonder why it took so long.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>

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