Re: Boycott Microsoft
--------------5E2C5FEFE5747964F1A73857 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Would you two children (and I use the word generously) kindly take your silly little fight outside (and out of comp.os.ms-windows.apps.financial). Now Eric, you should be ashamed of yourself for picking on the poor little immature Morbuis (even though you are right!). Robin wrote: > In article <ejohnsonEsxB5w.Ay0@netcom.com>, ejohnson@netcom.com (Eric > Johnson) wrote: > > > Michael Hunter <mhunter@umr.dot.edu> writes: > > > > >> Mark "I suck" Peters > > > > >That's quite a name you got there... > > > > Gee! You're so damn funny. You obviously have to resort to personal > > attacks rather than risk making a philosophical defense for your > > collectivist-statist position. Your whole argument consists of using > > a dollar sign in the name of Microsoft. You're a real bright guy! > > > > -Eric Johnson > > Software Engineer > > Defend Microsoft! www.moral-defense.org > > What's there to defend? M$? Why bother? They already got more stooges, > peons and apologists than they can use. Besides, people who defend M$ tend > to be a bunch of self-serving hypocrites who are defending themselves > really (especially the Windows developers). By defending M$, they are > trying to defend the entity who puts bread on their tables. While that is > perfectly understandable (from the perspective of a human nature weakness) > it is still morally reprehensible to defend fraud and corruption, just so > one may ensure one's income. Selfishness can not be reconciled with the > good of the many (computer users in general). Read about Socrate's trial > and suicide, sometime. > > Morbius -- Andrew DeFaria <defaria@cup.hp.com> Hewlett Packard - ADL/PDL Phone: (408)-447-5741 Home Page: http://www.defaria.com Unofficial Quicken 98 Web Page: http://www.defaria.com/Quicken --------------5E2C5FEFE5747964F1A73857 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <HTML> Would you two <B>children</B> (and I use the word generously) kindly take your silly little fight outside (and out of comp.os.ms-windows.apps.financial). Now Eric, you should be ashamed of yourself for picking on the poor little immature Morbuis (even though you are right!). <P>Robin wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>In article <ejohnsonEsxB5w.Ay0@netcom.com>, ejohnson@netcom.com (Eric <BR>Johnson) wrote: <P>> Michael Hunter <mhunter@umr.dot.edu> writes: <BR>> <BR>> >> Mark "I suck" Peters <BR>> <BR>> >That's quite a name you got there... <BR>> <BR>> Gee! You're so damn funny. You obviously have to resort to personal <BR>> attacks rather than risk making a philosophical defense for your <BR>> collectivist-statist position. Your whole argument consists of using <BR>> a dollar sign in the name of Microsoft. You're a real bright guy! <BR>> <BR>> -Eric Johnson <BR>> Software Engineer <BR>> Defend Microsoft! www.moral-defense.org <P> What's there to defend? M$? Why bother? They already got more stooges, <BR>peons and apologists than they can use. Besides, people who defend M$ tend <BR>to be a bunch of self-serving hypocrites who are defending themselves <BR>really (especially the Windows developers). By defending M$, they are <BR>trying to defend the entity who puts bread on their tables. While that is <BR>perfectly understandable (from the perspective of a human nature weakness) <BR>it is still morally reprehensible to defend fraud and corruption, just so <BR>one may ensure one's income. Selfishness can not be reconciled with the <BR>good of the many (computer users in general). Read about Socrate's trial <BR>and suicide, sometime. <P>Morbius</BLOCKQUOTE> <P>-- <BR>Andrew DeFaria <defaria@cup.hp.com> <BR>Hewlett Packard - ADL/PDL <BR>Phone: (408)-447-5741 <BR>Home Page: <A HREF="http://www.defaria.com">http://www.defaria.com</A>; <BR>Unofficial Quicken 98 Web Page: <A HREF="http://www.defaria.com/Quicken">http://www.defaria.com/Quicken</A>; <BR> </HTML> --------------5E2C5FEFE5747964F1A73857--