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- From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
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- Date: 4 Jan 1993 21:17:35 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan4.203709.25238@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- >I know exactly how you feel!! The best machine for me is a PS/2 but those
- >bastards at IBM refuse to preload Windows on it!!
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- >So I try for my second choice, an HP-PA machine, but would you believe the
- >_gall_ of those guys? They won't sell it with SunOS!!!
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- Both of these arguments would be relevant if we were talking about Microsoft
- computers. A system manufacturer has the right to put whatever he wants on his
- machines. Microsoft, however, is trying very hard to exercise the same kind of
- power over machines that they didn't make.
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- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
- jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity.
- "Science is all in the public domain, and allows few secrets."
- -- Tom Clancy, _The Sum of all Fears_
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