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- From: 101611.2710@compuserve.com (Ralf Graf)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.pascal.misc,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: WORD FILE FORMAT (WINDOWS)
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 20:58:59 -0500
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- In article <3146107F.2B65@parashift.com>,
- Mike Girou <girou@parashift.com> wrote:
- > <SNIP>
- > Microsoft as a company has a few unpleasant quirks, but they have
- > helped change the world in a positive way. Would you rather have
- > IBM back in a leadership role? Basically, the marketplace has spoken
- > quite clearly. Yes, eventually they must die. But it'll be a while.
-
- ROFL
- Oh dear, the men of the century: Ghandi and Gates...
- Sorry, I don't want to start an OS flame war in an overcrowded
- newsgroup, but:
-
- Yes, MS changed the world in that way:
- Millions of people let their powerful 486/586 hardware crawl like an
- good(?) old XT, using fat, slow, dangerous (VFAT!) software.
- And then they even call it the STANDARD! And the marketplace? All the
- stupid lemmings should decide what's good and what's not? Boy, they don't
- have a clue of what they're buying, they just follow the masses, as usual...
-
- Sorry again for waisting resources. I always get angry about all that
- useless blah in the newsgroups, but this really was too much.
-
- Greetings
-
- Ralf Graf
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