Re: Black Plague + Eu concerns
Vincent wrote:
>
> Mannequin wrote:
> >
> > 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.)
> >
>
> If people didn't buy their products, their billions spent on marketing would
> obviously
> not be effective, now would it?!?!
>
> I didn't buy my PC either; It was a gift, and very nice one at that. :D
>
> > 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.'
> >
>
> I never said Linux was doomed, but rather trying to point out that newer
> Microsoft
> products are not crap, and that they are only getting better. I'm rather tired
> of the
> anti-Microsoft sh!7, and that Linux will conquer Windows.
>
> I mentioned why I was leaving and where I was going, then I took the "heat"
> from others,
> I was merely debating in a friendly manner.
>
> > (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. ;)
>
> Lets leave it at that!!
When?
>
> >
> > -Mannequin.
> >
> > My Euphoria works:
> > wxPetals - <a
> > href="http://www.rapideuphoria.com/wxpetals.zip">http://www.rapideuphoria.com/wxpetals.zip</a>
> >
>
> Regards,
> Vincent
>
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