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Re: [PLUG] Microsoft Harangue
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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
> --
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>
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