__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Friday 04 May 2007 12:06 \__
> thad01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <thad01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> espoused:
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dell is now coming under a lot of pressure to preinstall Firefox. I
>>> posted about this a couple of hours ago. I bet he'll do something about
>>> it (not just in the UK where it has been available for almost a year).
>>> Bear in mind that Michael Dell uses Firefox on his Ubuntu Linux laptop.
>>> It's a shame that Microsoft made IE impossible to remove. The fiends.
>>> Gates' deposition video comes to mind... "if we put it right in their
>>> face, so to speak, they will not have a reason to use something else
>>> [Netscape]".
>>
>> What? IE is easy to remove. Of course I end up taking the entire
>> Windows OS with it... that's a feature, not a bug.
>>
>>>;)
>>
>
> Hehe - excellent remark - that deserves to be a .sig, or even a
> tag-line. Perhaps Homer might give it a place in his stats :-)
I doubt it. It falls within the 7-day window in which he promised not to post
any material that makes fun of Microsoft. ;-)
>> Thad (just finished replacing yet another Windows box with Ubuntu)
>>
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