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RE: [PLUG] Microsoft Harangue
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Similarly, somebody once said "To take no action is an action" (Bruce Lee).
If you take the time know who your enemy is, find their weaknesses and know
their strengths, then you can decide what action is appropriate. In our
case, knowing what comes out of Redmond and their actions only aids us in
developing a better product. Let them spend the money on new GUIs and
proprietary APIs. We simply learn from it what works and doesn't and
improve upon it.
cjs
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From: plug-admin@lists.nothinbut.net
[mailto:plug-admin@lists.nothinbut.net]On Behalf Of Kyle Burton
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2000 1:55 PM
To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Microsoft Harangue
Sun Tzu's shared some of his wisdom:
Know your enemy
If MS is your enemy, then you should do your best to know MS.
I don't think that I really consider MS my enemy. They ceartinly make
things
unpleasant, but as of now, they're not really what I would consider an
enemy.
k
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On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Bill Jonas wrote:
> Permit me to diagree with you...
>
> On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, secher wrote:
>
> >Folks, I'm really getting tired of this ongoing debate. It's reached a
> >point where I'm simply deleting the email without reading it, thus
> >relegating PLUG mail to the same level of spam.
>
> Procmail is a wonderful thing. ;)
>
> >To make a long story short, it's not Linux related,
>
> This is where I disagree. What I've seen so far is a meaningful
> exchange about where Linux is and how it stacks up to other operating
> systems (which necessarily, by definition of the word "comparison",
> necessitates some discussion of those other OSs). I figured when I made
> the original post that it was one of those one-off messages that get
> discarded (and from your tone, I'll bet that's what you wish it was ;),
> but instead it evolved into an intelligent, cool-headed debate of the
> relative merits of each. What's wrong with that?
>
> >and this is not a M$ list.
>
> Agreed. ;)
>
> I suspect that we are in violent agreement as to what our objective is
> on this list, ie, have a discussion about Linux (and possibly related
> issues?) with other Linux users in the Philadelphia area, but that we
> disagree on what that means, exactly.
>
> Bill
> --
> "Notice how altering $one in fact altered each element of @a.
> This is a feature, not a bug." -Schwartz & Christiansen,
> _Learning Perl, 2nd Edition_
> Stop abusive software patents! Start typing http://www.noamazon.com
>
>
>
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