[ale] OT Re: [ale] Microsoft now favors fair competition

[Joe Bayes]

Geoffrey typeth:

>You may find it humorous, I do not.  Your comments such as these belie 
>that I see you as a M$ sympathizer.  Hardly, but anyone who has anything 
>good to say about M$ is poorly informed, or worse, too much like M$. 

Now, that's not fair. I loathe Microsoft's business tactics and buggy
software as much as the next guy, but saying that there's *nothing*
good about them is misleading and wrong. Counterexamples: Last I
checked, Microsoft made pretty good mice and keyboards. MS has been
known to give money to various worthy causes. If I cared, I could
probably find buildings owned by Microsoft which were environmentally
friendly. Etc. 

The awful things that they have done may *outweigh* the good things
that they have done, but those bad things don't erase the existence of
the good things.

--joe
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Joe Bayes -- jbayes at spoo.mminternet.com

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