On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 14:49:27 -0600, Mark Dodel wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 13:02:12 UTC, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> -> Happy Birthday Linus !
> ->
> -> ,----[ Quote ]
> -> | Today is the day when the whole Linux community can congratulate
> -> | Linus with his Birthday.
> -> `----
> ->
> -> http://www.youtux.org/content/view/181/2/
> ->
> -> When Gates was the same age as Linus, he was already doing so much...
> ->
> -> Not much different from Microsoft...
> ->
> -> ,----[ Quote ]
> -> | "Some years back, Microsoft practiced a lot of dirty tricks using
> -> | online mavens to go into forums and create Web sites extolling the virtues
> -> | of Windows over OS/2. They were dubbed the Microsoft Munchkins, and it
> -> | was obvious who they were and what they were up to. But their numbers
> -> | and energy (and they way they joined forces with nonaligned dummies who
> -> | liked to pile on) proved too much for IBM marketers, and Windows won
> -> | the operating-system war through fifth-column tactics"
> -> `----
> ->
> -> http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/gizmos/2005/11/2_grassroots_an.html
>
>
> The lying sack of crap wintrolls back then did more than just lie
> about how great the next release of wincrap would be, they spread FUD
> about OS/2 under the guise of being OS/2 users. They lied then, they
> lie now. They should all die a slow death choking on their own vomit
> along with their puppet master. microsoft is the lowest of the low.
> They will stoop to anything no matter how illegal or unethical.
OS2/Warp was a lemon and committed hari-kari.
Like linux, there were no commercial apps *or hardly any) written for it.
>
> Mark
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