Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/25

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Subject: [Leica] Resist!
From: Mike Johnston <michaeljohnston@ameritech.net>
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 18:04:45 -0600

> Microsoft's motive is always the same: to force the world to use
> Microsoft products everywhere. What they are doing here is trying to
> create social pressure on people who run mail servers (like the
> Leica-Users list) to use Microsoft software in the mail server. When a
> Microsoft mail-reading program is processing a mail message that was
> delivered by a Microsoft mail server, it does the right thing.  In
> other cases (such as the mail software that I use) it does this awful
> thing.


Brian,
Q: How many Microsoft employees does it take to change a light bulb?

A: 257--one to change the lighbulb, and the other 256 to devise a way to
ensure that any time anyone in the world changes a lightbulb for any reason
from now on, Microsoft gets $2.

- --Mike

Replies: Reply from Nick Poole <nick.botton@camphill.org.uk> (Re: [Leica] Resist!)