[geeks] My love/hate with Mickeysoft...

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Sunday, September 23, 2001 at 14:52:00 (-0700), Peter L. Wargo wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] My love/hate with Mickeysoft...
>
> On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> 
> > DO NOT USE M$ SOFTWARE!  You have fallen into their trap.  "All your $$$
> > are belong to M$!"
> 
> Oddly enough, the only software of theirs that I am using is free.

That's what you think, and what they want you to think.  Meanwhile some
of the money you (likely) paid to Apple for the Mac and MacOS went
directly to M$ for licensing, and some of it also went into promoting M$
software (by Apple).

It's just the same with PCs -- the M$ software the "comes for free" on
your new PC is anything but.  M$ force PC makers to pay blanket
royalties and then force them to include their software on every
machine.  It's only very recently since the court cases got more intense
that venders were allowed (and forced by the courts) to give you your
money back, iff you ask, and sign an agreement you won't use the software.

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							Greg A. Woods

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