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Re: Black Plague + Eu concerns

• Posted by Mannequin <mannslists at invigorated.org> Aug 05, 2005
• 563 views

Vincent wrote:
> 
> Mannequin wrote:
> > 
> > Jason Gade wrote:
> > > 
> > > <snip microsoft fanboyism>
> > > feh!
> > 
> > I agree with this post. It looks like you can add another to the ranks of
> > victims to
> > Micro$oft's marketing million$.
> 
> Well considering that I have yet to ever buy anything from Microsoft (Windows
> XP came
> with my machine, there are free alternatives to Visual Studio IDEs, Microsoft
> games
> were given to me as presents, etc.) I dont consider myself victim to their
> marketing
> schemes. Depite their "evilness", their new products are improving in quality;
> IMHO
> that is really all that should count to consumers.
> 
> Windows Vista Professional will probably be the first product *I* buy from
> Microsoft.

I disagree here. You don't have to purchase a product from Microsoft to be a
victim of what YOU called it's 'evilness.' (Besides that, you purchased a
computer with Windows on it, therefore you purchased Windows. It was included in
the price of your PC.)

The reason I said you had fallen to their marketing power is because, in the
small amount of time that I've been here, you've done nothing but slam RDS and
tout how Microsoft is taking over the known world. You've said numerous times
that Linux was doomed because of the next wanna-be OS from the folks at
Microsoft. So puleeeze, don't try and insult our intelligence by saying that you
have not fallen for their 'worm on a fish hook.'

(Snipped more anti-RDS text...)

I know that I'm a newbie in these parts, so forgive me for jumping in here. I'm
just getting rather sick of the misinformation being presented as fact. I hold
nothing against Vincent or anyone else here... yet. ;)

-Mannequin.

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