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Date:      Mon, 25 Aug 1997 18:42:19 -0400
From:      Lee Cremeans <lee@wakky.dyn.ml.org>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Since the MicroSloth(tm) jokes have been flowing...
Message-ID:  <19970825184219.02943@wakky.dyn.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970825175427.1888B-100000@Journey2.mat.net>; from Chuck Robey on Mon, Aug 25, 1997 at 05:56:44PM -0400
References:  <19970825211642.11606@grendel.IAEhv.nl> <Pine.BSF.3.96.970825175427.1888B-100000@Journey2.mat.net>

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On Mon, Aug 25, 1997 at 05:56:44PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
> This is more than a little irritating.  It's nearly impossible nowadays to
> buy a PC without contributing to MS, whether you intend to run Windows or
> not.  They _didn't_ fairly win the market, they _aren't_ fairly keeping
> the market, sure they have good tools, because they have outright stolen
> what they couldn't buy (see Stacker!).

This is why I decided a while back not to buy a whole computer again, to
just buy the parts piecemeal.  I don't use or like Windoze that much, so
why should I have to pay for a copy? 

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