[SATLUG] Pokes at Microsoft (off Topic)

[Thomas King]

> 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.

Is it April 1st????