From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Mar 11 13:24:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CEEA1532C for ; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:23:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id OAA07666; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 14:23:29 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.1.19990311141549.040dcef0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 14:18:33 -0700 To: Eric Wayte From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: O'Reilly article: Whence the Source: Untangling the Open Source/Free Software Debate Cc: Mike Jeays , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.1.19990311122850.03ec4650@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Looks like Microsoft is developing an entire package of products with scatalogical names: Microsoft Turd, Microsoft Outhouse, Microsoft PowerPuke, Microsoft Internal Explorer. They're probably part of a suite called (get ready to groan!)... Orifice 2000. Sorry, couldn't resist. --Brett At 04:05 PM 3/11/99 -0500, Eric Wayte wrote: >For years, I've referred to their document processing product as >"Microsoft Turd." > >NT - Not Today, Not Tomorrow, No Thanks! > >Eric Wayte >Database Administrator >University of Central Florida >ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu > > >On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Brett Glass wrote: > >> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 12:29:34 -0700 >> From: Brett Glass >> To: Mike Jeays >> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG >> Subject: Re: O'Reilly article: Whence the Source: Untangling the Open >Source/Free Software Debate >> >> At 01:23 PM 3/11/99 -0500, Mike Jeays wrote: >> >> >switching to Outlook, and me waving around a copy of "Outlook >> >Annoyances" >> >(377 pages, ISBN 1-56592-384-7) is not making me many friends in some >> >quarters. >> >> A developer in my area -- one who uses Microsoft tools in some of his >> products, in fact, refers to it as "Microsoft Outhouse (tm)." ;-) >> >> --Brett >> >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message >> > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message