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From: David Webber
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 00:00

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In article <DAIwvD.3CL@alamo.net> briggs@alamo.net "Briggs Reschke" writes:

> 
> > YES - Bill Gates has killed more computer developers than any other I 
> > care to comment on. If he only had a college education in CS....
> 
> We need a group dedicated to flaming BILL. A whipping post, if you will,
> that will give us a place to work out our frustrations. It might save
> a little bandwidth as well.

Good point: there are plenty.  They have "advocacy" in the name.  I believe
OS2 and Windows have advocacy groups to which many articles are cross posted. 
These should surely serve.

I would hazard that all shareware authors care about is which OS
suits thir application and which brings them users.

Dave
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| Dave Webber                        dave@musical.demon.co.uk   |
| Author of MOZART, the Windows 3.1 shareware Music Processor   |
| and member of the Association of Shareware Professionals      |
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From: David Webber <dave@musical.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Application Chauvinism by Major FTP site
Date: 1995/06/21
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