[ale] OT: if this won't make you want to puke....

[Dow Hurst]

THANKS Jeff!!!!  I needed to hear that!  Great response, and very Linux 
minded as well. :-) :-)
Dow


Jeff Hubbs wrote:

>Good troll.  I'll bite.
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>On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 17:29, Steven M. Jasmin wrote:
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>>Thats why the call it a free market people...he deserves his money and has
>>earned it. 
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>Only to the extent you consider profiting from criminal activity
>"earned."  Gates is a (say it with me, now)
>CONVICTED...ILLEGAL...MONOPOLIST.
>
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>>If you dont like microsoft for being a huge company with complete
>>market share you might want to consider moving to Russia or some other
>>communist/socialist country. 
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>No, I don't like them for basing their entire business on illegal
>practices (all the way down to dumpster-diving for code) and practicing
>social engineering on a scale that would have impressed Joseph
>Goebbels.  I don't like them for making it nearly impossible to provide
>cost-effective and flexible IT resources using their products and for
>infantilizing computer users everwhere ("MY Computer," "MY Network
>Places, "MY Documents," MINE, MINE, MINE!).  I don't like them for
>producing such shoddy software that many people just buy new computers
>when the file system on their old one gets so corrupted that the things
>won't even boot anymore (more money for MS, right?).
>
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>>I mean seriously for all of the reasons to be
>>pissed of at microsoft the fact that they are millionaires is at the very
>>bottom of the list. They earned it and deserve to reap the beneifits of
>>their work. Hence they call it a free market economy and Bill Gates is one
>>of the few people who has truly achieved the fabled "American Dream" that
>>everyone loves to harp on.....
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>It's an "American Dream" as envisioned by Kenneth Lay, Jack Welch, and
>their ilk.  It's a question of being able to live in perpetual, armored,
>pampered comfort while their business decisions drive down the standard
>of living of the people who shuffle past in the wake of their
>limousines.  It's a question of, having exhausted LEGITIMATE means of
>making money, moving on to ILLEGITIMATE means.
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>>Be pissed of at Microsoft for releasing horrible programs, untested
>>software, and security holes that you can drive aircraft carriers through,
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>Only secondarily, as I use less and less of them and buy even less all
>the time.  
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>>but do not be pissed at them for achieving the american dream for it is only
>>your own personal jealousy that shines through in that insult.
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>>Spam me all you want but i firmly stand by my statement.
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>Good; you're an easier target for it.
>
>NEXT!?
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>- Jeff
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