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[John Meyer <john.l.meyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

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What I'm saying is, in the context of all the doom and glooming that's
been going on on this list, there is a place between kissing Microsoft's
rear and holding annual Bill burning parties on our front lawn.

J Sloan wrote:
> 
> John Meyer wrote:
>> Maybe he can ask SCO how far that argument went.
>>
>> Look, I'm not saying that everybody in the Microsoft office isn't Satan
>> Spawn, but Microsoft is more than Gates and Ballmer 
> 
> OK, I'm with you so far...
> 
>> and to imagine that
>> we can make a large impact in the computer world without them is absurd.
> 
> ?
> 
> Now that is a complete non-sequitur. I have no response to that, other
> than to say that I'm astounded by the absurdity of the notion that
> unix/linux needs microsoft's blessing in order to succeed in dislodging
> microsoft from their comfortable near-monopoly position.
> 
> Joe

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