[SATLUG] Pokes at Microsoft (off Topic)

[Alex Bartonek]

Bill is that you?


--- Robert J Hewitt <hewittrj_78244 at grandecom.net>
wrote:

> You know it seems to me that everyone including
> myself seems to take shots
> at Microsoft a lot.  But in true defense to the
> novice computer user like my
> neighbor daughter, the nice family just up the
> street and even my wife, all
> who don't want to learn Linux. (God forbid) but
> there are a lot of people
> who use both like me.  Listening to the Linux groups
> slam MS and the novices
> looking at Linux like it came from another planet. 
> Maybe we should learn to
> be more tolerant to MS and its products I use XP and
> I am looking at a
> Laptop with Vista installed on it.  I still use
> Linux on some of my
> computers and I like it but I also use Win XP on
> other computers.  The point
> of this message is that just because we prefer Linux
> over MS products
> doesn't really mean we need to go forth and attack
> MS as if it is the enemy
> bent on world destruction, and Bill Gates is not the
> Devil incarnate.  I
> think maybe for this new year on 2007 we could be
> more tolerant of the
> Microsoft giant and tone back on the wording of
> attacking Microsoft or M$ as
> it gets put sometimes.  Just remember and most of
> you Linux Users had
> business and ethics and economics and government
> courses know that Bill
> Gates is living the American dream just like the
> rest of us want to, he
> produced a product called DOS and then windows, and
> then Office and most of
> the world will use it no mater how we as the Open
> Source Community will
> claim different (and yes that does mean the US
> Government who tried the
> anti-trust suit) and Microsoft who expanded to other
> thinks like the Xbox
> and Xbox 360 (of which I own both along with a Game
> cube  and no I don't
> like Play station). So let's try to remember that
> next time we post anything
> about MS I know I am.   
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>              Robert 
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>                 Hewittrh_78244 at grandecom.net
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