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- From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
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- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
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- Date: 5 Jan 1993 22:28:10 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan5.205503.11199@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- >Surely you're not saying that a company can do anything it likes as long
- >as you can't see it?
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- No...I'm saying that, in the case of screws, there is likely to be no
- difference to me as the consumer of the product those screws hold together.
- That is emphatically not the case for operating systems.
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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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