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- From: discar@nosc.mil (Joe Discar)
- Subject: Re: Is Microsoft the next Standard Oil?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.182600.9662@nosc.mil>
- Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
- References: <8322@lib.tmc.edu> <1993Jan5.225440.14879@tc.cornell.edu> <8352@lib.tmc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:26:00 GMT
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- In article <8352@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan5.225440.14879@tc.cornell.edu> bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor) writes:
- >>If the successful candidate increased his/her employment probability
- >>by becoming more marketable, went for many interviews, wrote nice
- >>resumes, convinced employers that he/she is valuable to them, would
- >>you say that he/she is forcing the other candidates into unemployment ?
- >
- >No.
- >
- >If, on the other hand, the successful candidate went out and slashed the tires
- >of the other candidates, making them miss their interviews, and got anonymous
- >stories printed in the local papers about how they were wife-beating child
- >molesters who couldn't program their way out of an infinite loop, would _you_
- >say that he is forcing the others into unemployment? I would.
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- Oh come on now! All your examples are blatantly illegal activities... and
- Microsoft (to my knowledge) has done nothing blatantly illegal... which is
- why there is a controversy in the first place.
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- Don't let your bias get you carried away.
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- BTW, I've seen the 2.1 beta... it may be good enough to usurp MS Windows.
- Which is the way to unbalance Microsoft: do it by being better--not by
- posting that Microsoft employes were "wife-beating child molesters who
- couln't program their way out of an infinite loop."
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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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