On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, J. Craig Woods wrote: > Charlie wrote: > > Wassup doc? (I'm sorry but I couldn't resist.) > > What it be like, dude? > > > The responses ranged from; "How much is Microsoft paying them for this crap?" from >an > aunt of a good friend, to his reply which is unfit for quotation on a polite >mailing > > list such as this. :-) > > Who is spreading those fucking rumors about this being a "polite mailing > list"? > :-) > > > BTW did you know that the ZDNet Forum "Computer Help" was; for a very long > > time, the "online support" link for Windows ME? Isn't _that_ just "special?" > > > > ZDNet. Another site that I choose not to open. > > The source of these kinds of attacks on open source are inconsequential. > This was posted so we could be aware of what some groups have as their > agenda. It is very easy to dismiss this as so much propaganda coming > from the likes of Micro$oft. A simple read of history shows us what > dismissive attitudes cost Europe in May of 1940; what they cost the USA > in Dec of 1941, and what they cost her again in Sept of 2001. We may > consider such statements from an "influential think tank" to be just so > much crap but summarily dismiss them at your own peril. I, for one, take > these attacks on the future of open source development as very serious. > Let there be no mistake about it: the barbarians are at the gate. > > drjung >
No doubt...no doubt at all you are 100% correct. But, what to do drjung? do we patch or plan as one who is wise recently so elequantly stated here on the list(s). -- Mark a.k.a. daRcmaTTeR ------------------ "If your wife told you NOT to do it there's probably a real good reason!" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTERED LINUX USER #186492 Penguinized since 1997
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