There is no chuckle derived from terrorism. You claim someone "deserved"
it. Who would that be? The building? Microsoft? You have to be wary of
being too glib when comment on events such as these, particularly in an
email where the only tone others get from it, comes from what you have said.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Graves [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 11:34 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: OT: FW: Blast Rocks Microsoft Office in S. Africa
>
>
> Bret wrote:
>
> >This thread is WAY out of line. If you want to promote the
> use of violence
> and chuckle >at events that may
> >have cause serious injury or death to your fellow human
> beings please do it
> somewhere
> >else. I too get
> >carried away with my anti MS feelings but this is too much.
> >Do I believe that MS uses its market clout in a non
> competative manner?
> Yes.
> >Do I think that their products are buggy and insecure? Yes.
> >Do I use them? Yes.
> >Do I think that thes have some really sharp folks busting
> their butts to
> make better
> >products despite what I
> >sometimes feel is the misguided goal of embrace, extend and
> exterminate
> that is set by
> >the executives? Yes
> >Do I think that these folks, working in the IT field, as I
> and many other
> folks on this >list do deserve to
> >have their lives endangered just because the chose to work
> for a company
> that has the
> >bucks to support a
> >sh*tload of R&D, great benefits, other really sharp folks to
> work with and
> is probably
> >fun to boot? Not no
> >but hell no.
> >
> >maybe a subscription to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> would be more
> inline with this >type of thinking
>
>
> Before this gets out of hand let me point out:
>
> 1) I too work in an IT department and use microsoft products
> and don't want
> to
> get blown up.
> 2) This happened at 5am, no employees were in the building.
> 3) The four security gaurds in the building were not injured.
> 4) The bomb went off away from the building in a field near
> it and no there
> was
> no structural damage.
> 5) The bomb was probably not even related to Mircosoft but to
> the chaos in
> South Africa.
>
> The reason i can chuckle is BECAUSE nobody was hurt and I
> believe that it
> probably
> doesn't even have anything to do with Microsoft being Microsoft.
>
>
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