Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... > In comp.lang.perl.misc David Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Mike Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > >> Sorry, but nobody but the government actually owns property. In most > >> places, you can't make non-trivial changes to "your" property without > >> permission from the government. They even charge you rent on "your" > >> property, only they call it "property tax". > > >I see you are a totalitarianist or perhaps a communist. If you want to > > live in America and discuss things that are relevent to America, let me > > know. > > Why would you say that - Mike Meyer made a point to which you have > obviously no answer. Or do you deny that his comments on this matter > of property are true? Methinks David simply missed that Mike was being facetious. (Irony and facetiousness don't translate well into print, as Frank Zappa once noted.) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... > > In comp.lang.perl.misc David Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > "Mike Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > > > >> Sorry, but nobody but the government actually owns property. In most > > >> places, you can't make non-trivial changes to "your" property without > > >> permission from the government. They even charge you rent on "your" > > >> property, only they call it "property tax". > > > > >I see you are a totalitarianist or perhaps a communist. If you want to > > > live in America and discuss things that are relevent to America, let me > > > know. > > > > Why would you say that - Mike Meyer made a point to which you have > > obviously no answer. Or do you deny that his comments on this matter > > of property are true? > > Methinks David simply missed that Mike was being facetious. (Irony > and facetiousness don't translate well into print, as Frank Zappa > once noted.) Uh, you _were_ being facetious there, weren't you Mike? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... > > Also may I remind you that these newsgroups are international. > > So what? We are talking about a United States' company's actions with > respect to United States laws. There is no reason to make this about > philosophy, politics, law, international relations or any such things. If we > did that, we would wind up on tangents (just like this one!) that have > nothing whatsoever to do with Microsoft. > > Yes, in a discussion about Microsoft, I will make economic or political > statements that aren't 100% valid in every possible imaginable case. But > guess what? They'll be 100% valid for the case we're discussing. > > And you can watch all the replies about how my statement isn't true in > every possible case. Well, guess what? I only care about one case. But I was told recently that the broader discussion is exactly was Usenet if for. ;) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... > On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 16:54:13 +, John Wingate wrote: > > > Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> That would be a good guess, except that Microsoft's predatory and illegal > >> behaviour began long before OS/2 was even planned. It began in the mid > >> 1970s, with MS DOS. > > > > Nitpick: MS-DOS first appeared in 1981. > > [slaps head] > > Of course it did. The first thing I ever bought of Microsoft's, in 1982 or so, was a CP/M board for my Apple IIe. CP/M, whose programmers to this day defend sticking with 8-bit CPUs because 'they can't find a 4-bit chip they like'. Yeah, there's some desktop innovation for you. OS/2 1.0 was released in 1987, but the "selling" of it started in 1985 or so by IBM and Microsoft. It was a 286 OS. IBM seems to have had a history of squeezing out competition in the same way Microsoft has, if I recall correctly. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
