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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!news.cs.indiana.edu!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!ecn.purdue.edu!helz
  3. From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
  4. Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan4.002428.13319@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
  6. Sender: news@noose.ecn.purdue.edu (USENET news)
  7. Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
  8. References: <1992Dec30.190050.26854@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <8256@lib.tmc.edu> <1992Dec31.040712.3797@microsoft.com> <8285@lib.tmc.edu>
  9. Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 00:24:28 GMT
  10. Lines: 15
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  12. In article <8285@lib.tmc.edu>, jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
  13. |> In article <1992Dec31.040712.3797@microsoft.com> philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
  14. |> >     Jay, this tactic of branding everyone who doesn't agree with you
  15. |> >as "trying to work for MS" is getting really tiresome.  If you can't
  16. |> >address the points made in the posts, why bother to post this kind
  17. |> >of drivel?
  18. |> 
  19. |> Because I cannot fathom why someone would leap to the defense of sucvh
  20. |> obviously bad, monopolistic practices as MS engages in unless there's
  21. |> something in it for them. You're hardly an unbiased judge of the situation.
  22.  
  23. Remember the statement "when they came for me, there was nobody left to
  24. stand up for anybody?"  Its in _everybody's_ best interest that the goverment
  25. stays out of the marketplace.
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