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Date:      Sun, 20 Nov 2016 12:40:44 -0700 (MST)
From:      Dale Scott <dalescott@shaw.ca>
To:        "Brandon J. Wandersee" <brandon.wandersee@gmail.com>
Cc:        Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Microsoft announced it is joining The Linux Foundation?
Message-ID:  <F6879306-CDDE-4678-B884-08F31730F5A3@shaw.ca>
In-Reply-To: <86zikv5mqu.fsf@WorkBox.homestead.org>
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> On Nov 19, 2016, at 11:16 AM, Brandon J. Wandersee <brandon.wandersee@gmai=
l.com> wrote:
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> Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions writes:
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>> Conspiracy theories are stupid.
> fritter away weeks of precious mental effort trying
> to figure out how it all fit into the grand Microsoft World Domination
> Plot.

I think many people have trouble accepting that coincidence, happenstance, m=
omentum and happy accidents determine the course of history at least as much=
 as secret behind the scenes planning.

---
Dale R. Scott, P.Eng.
Transparency with Trust
Blog: http://www.dalescott.net
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> On Nov 19, 2016, at 11:16 AM, Brandon J. Wandersee <brandon.wandersee@gmai=
l.com> wrote:
>=20
>=20
> Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions writes:
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>> Conspiracy theories are stupid.
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> Indeed. But this thread is just another example of how these things
> always go. Satya Nadella could burn every inch of Redmond to ashes,
> bequeath his personal fortune to HIV research and then hang himself, and
> people would still fritter away weeks of precious mental effort trying
> to figure out how it all fit into the grand Microsoft World Domination
> Plot. Eventually they'd just conclude that Nadella actually didn't
> really do any of it, but was in reality set up by the NSA in conjunction
> with Google.
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> The Internet is one big bullshit farm. That's about the only substantive
> thing anyone can say in discussions like this.
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> --=20
> ::  Brandon J. Wandersee
> ::  brandon.wandersee@gmail.com
> ::  --------------------------------------------------
> ::  'The best design is as little design as possible.'
> ::  --- Dieter Rams ----------------------------------
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