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

[James P. Kinney III]

On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 17:53, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> Good troll.  I'll bite.

And your teeth are razor sharp!!  Excellent answer.

Just as I don't knowingly buy things from organized crime, kid labor
sweat shops or any other form of money making activity that is either
illegal (whether I agree with it or not) or exploitative (big gray area,
I know) or "just doesn't feel right", I don't BUY or USE Microsoft
crapware. 

As I currently feed my family by supporting other peoples computers, I
see, and repair, mostly Microshaft garbage. I am constantly reminded of
why every single person who has ever had to put up with that total pile
of fecal matter should be hounding every congress critter they can find
to never spend another tax payer dime on that digital dung pile.  If the
cost of migrating the entire federal government to what I know will do
the job better, in every area of computer use, is any where close to
what they are going to spend upgrading hardware and software to
eXcrement Product, that money could be better spent on user training for
a better workforce to learn how to work in a better environment.
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 17:29, Steven M. Jasmin wrote:
> > Thats why the call it a free market people...he deserves his money and has
> > earned it. 
> 
> Only to the extent you consider profiting from criminal activity
> "earned."  Gates is a (say it with me, now)
> CONVICTED...ILLEGAL...MONOPOLIST.
> 
> > 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. 
> 
> 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?).
> 
> > 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.....
> 
> 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.
> 
> > Be pissed of at Microsoft for releasing horrible programs, untested
> > software, and security holes that you can drive aircraft carriers through,
> 
> Only secondarily, as I use less and less of them and buy even less all
> the time.  
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> > Spam me all you want but i firmly stand by my statement.
> 
> Good; you're an easier target for it.
> 
> NEXT!?
> 
> - Jeff
> 
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