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- From: tomh@wes.on.ca (Tom Haapanen)
- Subject: Re: Bill Gates: What a weenie...
- Organization: Waterloo Engineering Software
- Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 14:19:42 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan05.141942.25511@wes.on.ca>
- References: <1993Jan4.060918.23367@zooid.guild.org> <1993Jan04.140747.1443@wes.on.ca> <1993Jan5.071443.16490@zooid.guild.org>
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- >> Mark Kovarski <kovarski@zooid.guild.org> writes:
- >>> [A childish diatribe full of personal attacks deleted]
-
- > tomh@wes.on.ca (Tom Haapanen) writes:
- >> Well, that does it for Mr. Kovarski -- he's the first one to earn his very
- >> own spot in my comp.os.os2.advocacy kill file. Maybe he won't care, but
- >> at least it'll increase the signal-to-noise ratio in this group for me.
-
- [While Mr. Kovarski is indeed in my kill file, trn kindly showed me a
- followup to my own article, which I duly checked out...]
-
- Mark Kovarski <kovarski@zooid.guild.org> writes:
- > Interesting, indeed. I believe you were the person who send me several
- > "hate" mail messages a few weeks ago.
-
- Really? I don't send hate mail. Period. The only mail I recall sending
- to Mr. Kovarski was a request for some more objectivity a few weeks ago.
-
- > First of all, and most users will not know this. You are a Waterloo
- > student. Mr. Gates invests a lot of money into Waterloo since he
- > recruits many Waterloo students from there. Furthermore, some of the
- > users in your University are very obsessed with the idea that
- > Microsoft buys their minds as well. No offense, I've been there and
- > I know how it works.
-
- First, I'm not a Waterloo *student* -- I'm an alumni (BMath '86). Second,
- as far as I know, Microsoft does not invest any special amounts of money
- in Waterloo -- no donations, and only the usual academic pricing for their
- software. While Microsoft does hire a handful of top grads each year
- (they are the only major US corporation to do active recruiting here, so
- they get a better choice of grads than they might get hiring at, say, MIT),
- this is quite irrelevant. While at Waterloo, the only Microsoft-written
- product I ever used was IBM's PC-DOS -- and current computer science
- students don't use even that. Unix is by far dominant, and there most
- certainly is no Microsoft Bias at UW.
-
- Of course, it appears that Mr. Kovarski would define anyone who doesn't
- drool at the sight of OS/2 and IBM as a Microsoft fanatic. Sigh.
-
- For the record, we use Windows, OS/2 2.0, Mac and Unix -- we're hardly a
- Microsoft-only shop.
-
- [ \tom haapanen "i don't even know what street canada is on" -- al capone ]
- [ tomh@wes.on.ca "trust the programmer" -- ansi c standard ]
- [ waterloo engineering software "to thine own self be true" -- polonius ]
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