____/ Linonut on Monday 16 July 2007 12:44 : \____
> After takin' a swig o' grog, Erik Funkenbusch belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>
>> On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:08:30 +0900, High Plains Thumper wrote:
>>
>>> PDF Page 11 has a replacement statement, "We Are Here to Help MICROSOFT".
>>
>> Of course, but the point they were making was that they help Microsoft by
>> heling the developers, but helping Microsoft was the reason. Any
>> for-profit corporation would, ultimately, have the same goal. Including
>> IBM, Novell, and Red Hat.
>>
>> Windows supports more hardware than Linux, especially new hardware.
>
> No, it doesn't. Maybe marginally, if you stick to x86-based stuff.
>
>> For everyone else, it's the devil you know.
>
> This summarizes it for me (page 3 of the PDF):
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>
http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03096.pdf
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> Evangelism is War
HPT said that they use the war Jihad somewhere ("Holy war"), but I haven't
looked at the large PDF carefully. I just went quickly through the pages and
it's obvious that there's _a lot_ of nasty stuff to be found there. It's like
entering the mind of greedy and corrupt people, to whom ethics are secondary.
Kind of like Erik who defends them passionately...
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