Re: An EXCELLENT Microsoft ... MS is in trouble from OpenSource OSes like Linux

2005-05-18 Thread Colin Ingram
Derrick Hudson wrote: | > | > ... and I thought MS products would stop sucking as soon as they started | > making vacuums. | | Is that a reference only us greybeards would understand? ;) It's a play on the word "suck". If software sucks, its bad. If a vacuum sucks, it is working. -D You co

Re: An EXCELLENT Microsoft ... MS is in trouble from OpenSource OSes like Linux

2005-05-18 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 08:02:21PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: | On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 19:49 +, Stephen Patterson wrote: | > Jude DaShiell wrote: | > > I hope you're writing about an excellent Microsoft heavy duty Shop Vac, | > > because otherwise excellent and Microsoft never get that close in |

Re: An EXCELLENT Microsoft ... MS is in trouble from OpenSource OSes like Linux

2005-05-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 19:49 +, Stephen Patterson wrote: > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > I hope you're writing about an excellent Microsoft heavy duty Shop Vac, > > because otherwise excellent and Microsoft never get that close in > > reality otherwise. > > ... and I thought MS products would stop s

Re: An EXCELLENT Microsoft ... MS is in trouble from OpenSource OSes like Linux

2005-05-14 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Stephen Patterson, > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > I hope you're writing about an excellent Microsoft heavy duty Shop Vac, > > because otherwise excellent and Microsoft never get that close in > > reality otherwise. > > ... and I thought MS products would stop sucking as soon as they start

Re: An EXCELLENT Microsoft ... MS is in trouble from OpenSource OSes like Linux

2005-05-14 Thread Stephen Patterson
Jude DaShiell wrote: > I hope you're writing about an excellent Microsoft heavy duty Shop Vac, > because otherwise excellent and Microsoft never get that close in > reality otherwise. ... and I thought MS products would stop sucking as soon as they started making vacuums. -- Stephen Patterson [

Re: An EXCELLENT Microsoft ... MS is in trouble from OpenSource OSes like Linux

2005-05-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
I hope you're writing about an excellent Microsoft heavy duty Shop Vac, because otherwise excellent and Microsoft never get that close in reality otherwise. On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Guy Koehler wrote: Will someone please forward me the original document? Thanks. I inadvertently deleted it before rea